Resistance – rroma.org https://rroma.org Thu, 28 May 2026 12:15:11 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://rroma.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/cropped-greenwheel_large-1-32x32.png Resistance – rroma.org https://rroma.org 32 32 Slobodan Lala Berberski https://rroma.org/slobodan-lala-berberski/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=slobodan-lala-berberski Thu, 28 May 2026 12:15:11 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=32755 A festival is now celebrating him. Slobodan Lala Berberski was born on October 20, 1919 in Bečkerek, today’s Zrenjanin, where he completed elementary and high school. He began studying law, but as a member of the Communist Youth League of Yugoslavia, he was arrested in 1941. In 1941, he joined the People’s Liberation War of the people of Yugoslavia. He was a Romani writer and the first president of the World Roma Organization bweing elected as the first president of the World Roma Organization in the famous 1971 london meeting.

]]> Roma Resistance https://rroma.org/roma-resistance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-resistance Mon, 12 Jan 2026 15:28:36 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=31079 The Historical Institute of the Resistance and the Contemporary Age of Forlì-Cesena, in collaboration with the Municipality of Forlì, is organizing the presentation of the book “Vittoriosi al fin liberi siam. Roma e Sinti nella Resistenza italiana” by Chiara Nencioni, on Tuesday, January 13, in the Sala Randi, Forlì Municipality. Ines Briganti will be present at the event, alongside the author.

]]> Czechia and Roma Resistance https://rroma.org/czechia-and-roma-resistance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=czechia-and-roma-resistance Sat, 17 May 2025 12:09:21 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=28326 A memorial service was organized by the Roma and Sinti Association in the Czech Republic in cooperation with the Association of Christian Aid Brno. Its aim was to honour the memory of the Roma victims of Nazism and to commemorate the heroic uprising of the Roma and Sinti in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, which took place on May 16, 1944 – 81 years ago.

]]> Roma Resistance Day https://rroma.org/roma-resistance-day/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-resistance-day Sat, 17 May 2025 12:08:01 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=28323 April 16th, Roma Resistance Day, commemorates the resistance of Roma inmates in the Auschwitz “Zigeunerlager” when the Nazis liquidated the camp.

]]> Roma in Resistance https://rroma.org/roma-in-resistance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=roma-in-resistance Mon, 12 May 2025 10:26:58 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=28281 “One of Us. Roma and Sinti in the Resistance” is a podcast against anti-Gypsyism, proposed by the Carta di Roma Association and the Human Rights Foundation.

The document intended for students and addresses the issue of anti-Gypsyism to counter stereotypes that dehumanize an entire community and to remember the Roma and Sinti who fought for liberation from Nazi-fascism. “They did not fight for a homeland that discriminated against them,” explains Danilo De Biasio, author of the work, “they fought together with other Italians to bring back democracy.”

]]> Sinti and Roma Resistance https://rroma.org/sinti-and-roma-resistance/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=sinti-and-roma-resistance Sat, 26 Apr 2025 04:40:31 +0000 https://rroma.org/?p=28092 The Human Rights Foundation, in collaboration with Carta di Roma and the contribution of Unar National Office Against Racial Discrimination, has created a podcast to enhance the role that Roma and Sinti had in the Liberation. Starting from an extraordinary interview recovered from the Shoah Foundation by Amilcare Debar, a Sinto from Cuneo, partisan, battle name Corsaro.

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