Burial – rroma.org https://rroma.org Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:58:57 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Burial – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Burial https://rroma.org/burial-2/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burial-2 Fri, 20 Feb 2026 13:58:57 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31537 A reportage on the burial of Robert Botoš in Slovakia.

]]> Burial https://rroma.org/burial/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=burial Sun, 11 Jan 2026 16:45:09 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31067 More than two hundred members of the Padua Sinti community gathered on Saturday, January 10, in the center of Noventa Padovana to participate in the burial ceremony of one of their relatives. Giamaica Rajar, a 53-year-old woman from the Via Serenissima community, passed away on January 8. The ceremony had a particularly folkloric character: from the pink coffin, to the lighting of smoke bombs, to the presence of a large crucifix made entirely of balloons. A well-attended ceremony, which drew numerous community members and onlookers to the streets of the town.

]]> Poland and Cemeteries https://rroma.org/poland-and-cemeteries/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=poland-and-cemeteries Wed, 05 Nov 2025 15:09:49 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30363 A photo, taken at Poznań’s Junikowo cemetery, shows a huge, roofed tomb with a platform, as well as chairs, benches, and a table embedded in the wall and generated quite a bit of commentaries on social media.

]]> Final Rest https://rroma.org/final-rest/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=final-rest Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:27:15 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=30022 Three Roma remains collected for racist research purposes around 150 years ago have been interred at Leipzig’s Südfriedhof Cemetery. “In the best case scenario, we can succeed in alleviating some of the suffering that was committed long ago in the here and now,” said Prof. Martin Gericke, who heads provenance research at the Institute of Anatomy in Leipzig.

]]> Pavel “Sliško” Krtek https://rroma.org/pavel-slisko-krtek/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pavel-slisko-krtek Thu, 28 Aug 2025 12:44:31 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=29591 The Roma activist Pavel Sliško Krtek died at 51 and was buried on August 27.

May he rest in peace, and te ovel i phuv lokhi.

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