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Austria News Western Europe

Litzmannstadt Ghetto

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An article about the tragic fate of the Roma in the Litzmannstadt Ghetto. The Roma part of the Ghetto was liquidated 76 years ago. Many of the Roma there came from the Austrian Burgenland.
May they rest in peace.

– Tragiczna historia Romów z Litzmannstadt Ghetto. In: Dzeinnik Łodzki. 18.01.2018. https://plus.dzienniklodzki.pl/historia/a/tragiczna-historia-romow-z-litzmannstadt-ghetto,12854450 [link-preview url=”https://plus.dzienniklodzki.pl/historia/a/tragiczna-historia-romow-z-litzmannstadt-ghetto,12854450″]

Italy News Western Europe

A Ciambra: A Review

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A movie review of “A Ciambra”, an Italian movie about Roma nominated by Italy for the Oscars of international movies.

– The Martin Scorsese-Produced A Ciambra Is a Rough-and-Tumble Coming-of-Age Tale. In: Vulture. 19.01.2018. http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/review-a-ciambra-is-a-vibrant-verit-coming-of-age-tale.html [link-preview url=”http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/review-a-ciambra-is-a-vibrant-verit-coming-of-age-tale.html”]

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ERRC Again

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The European Roma Right Centre received the European Council’s Wallenberg price for fighting against racism and discrimination.

– European Roma Rights Centre receives Raoul Wallenberg Prize for combating racism, rights abuse. In: The Council of Europe. 17.01.2018. https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/full-news/-/asset_publisher/9vvrs2hbh9i2/content/european-roma-rights-centre-receives-raoul-wallenberg-prize-for-combating-racism-rights-abuse [link-preview url=”https://www.coe.int/en/web/portal/full-news/-/asset_publisher/9vvrs2hbh9i2/content/european-roma-rights-centre-receives-raoul-wallenberg-prize-for-combating-racism-rights-abuse”]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Slovak Minister Sued

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The European Roma Right Centre (ERRC) is suing the Slovak Interior Ministry for discrimination and the Interior Minsiter Kalinak. The ERRC is arguing that the police is specifically targeting Roma. This comes on the background of the new plan by Kalinak on reducing the Roma criminality.

– Centre for Roma Rights sues Slovak interior minister over discrimination. In: The Slovak Spectator. 17.01.2018. https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20739861/centre-for-roma-rights-sues-slovak-interior-minister-over-discrimination.html [link-preview url=”https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20739861/centre-for-roma-rights-sues-slovak-interior-minister-over-discrimination.html”]

News Eastern Europe Slovakia

Abel Ravasz

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The Slovak Plenipotnetiary for Roma affairs, Abel Ravasz from the party “Mošt – Hid” gave an interview to the press on his first two years in office.
While he certainly did good things, this latest interview is somewhat puzzling, especially regarding what he says about racism and discrimination of Roma in Slovakia. He says there is no such thing as a racist country and that there is “some discrimination” for Roma in education and work.
We don’t agree here.

– Rómsky splnomocnenec: Rasistické krajiny neexistujú. In: Aktuality. 11.01.2018. https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/551872/romsky-splnomocnenec-rasisticke-krajiny-neexistuju/ [link-preview url=”https://www.aktuality.sk/clanok/551872/romsky-splnomocnenec-rasisticke-krajiny-neexistuju/”]

Germany News Western Europe

Visit

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The president of the German Federal Criminal Police visited the documentation centre of the Central Council of the German Sinti and Roma and met with its president, Romani Rose.
Purpose of the visit: Dialogue and discussion on the situation of Sinti and Roma in Germany.

– Präsident des Bundeskriminalamtes Holger Münch zu Besuch im Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma. In: Zentralrat Sinti and Roma. 12.01.2018. http://zentralrat.sintiundroma.de/praesident-des-bundeskriminalamtes-holger-muench-zu-besuch-im-dokumentations-und-kulturzentrum-deutscher-sinti-und-roma/ [link-preview url=”http://zentralrat.sintiundroma.de/praesident-des-bundeskriminalamtes-holger-muench-zu-besuch-im-dokumentations-und-kulturzentrum-deutscher-sinti-und-roma/”]

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Lost …

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No surprise, the salesman who was insulted as “fat ginger pikey” and other slurs lost his race bias case.
There is racism and racism it seems …

– Salesman called ‘pikey salad-dodger’ loses race bias claim. In: The Times. 10.01.2018. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/salesman-called-pikey-salad-dodger-loses-race-bias-claim-bj8btshjc [link-preview url=”https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/salesman-called-pikey-salad-dodger-loses-race-bias-claim-bj8btshjc”]

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Half Truths

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Yet another article that mixes a few facts with lots of fictions. Roma left India much earlier than a 1’000 years ago. And quite a few implied stereotypes.

– Gypsy of big business – Dennis Avorin. In: The Times of Malta.12.01.2018. https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20180112/opinion/Gypsy-of-big-business-Dennis-Avorin.667737 [link-preview url=”https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20180112/opinion/Gypsy-of-big-business-Dennis-Avorin.667737″]

Austria News Western Europe

Austria: Reassurances

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It is fairly bad if the president of a country feels obliged to reassure Holocaust survivors that they don’t risk anything… This is what happened in Austria, on the background of an Austrian interior minister who suggested to “concentrate” refugees in camps.

– Austrian President Seeks to Reassure Holocaust Survivors on Government. In: USNews (Reuters). 11.01.2018. https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-01-11/austrian-president-seeks-to-reassure-holocaust-survivors-on-government
– FPÖ-Innenminister Kickl will Flüchtlinge “konzentriert” an einem Ort halten. In: Die Welt. 11.01.2018. https://www.welt.de/newsticker/news1/article172400202/Parteien-FPOE-Innenminister-Kickl-will-Fluechtlinge-konzentriert-an-einem-Ort-halten.html [link-preview url=”https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2018-01-11/austrian-president-seeks-to-reassure-holocaust-survivors-on-government “]

Germany News Western Europe

Book

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A new book was published recently in Mannheim, Germany, on the history of Roma and Sinti in that city and their constant discrimination and persecution.

– Stadt dokumentiert Geschichte der Sinti und Roma. In: Mannheimer Morgen. 10.01.2018. https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-thema-des-tages-stadt-dokumentiert-geschichte-der-sinti-und-roma-_arid,1178750.html [link-preview url=”https://www.morgenweb.de/mannheimer-morgen_artikel,-thema-des-tages-stadt-dokumentiert-geschichte-der-sinti-und-roma-_arid,1178750.html”]

News Eastern Europe Poland

Litzmanstadt Ghetto

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Łódź remembers about the Roma from the Litzmannstadt ghetto commemorating the 76th anniversary of the liquidation of the Roma camp.
May they rest in peace.

– Łódź pamięta o Romach z Litzmannstadt getto. In: TuŁodz. 06.01.2018. https://www.tulodz.com/wiadomosci,lodz-pamieta-o-romach-z-litzmannstadt-getto,wia5-3267-5958.html [link-preview url=”https://www.tulodz.com/wiadomosci,lodz-pamieta-o-romach-z-litzmannstadt-getto,wia5-3267-5958.html”]

Germany News Western Europe

Aussenlager …

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An article on the so-called “Aussenlager” – the small camps affiliated with a major Concentration Camp but who have been largely forgotten or kept under silence since the end of the War.
This is bad, as this is one of the common places where crimes were committed.

– Vom Erinnern und Vergessen: das KZ-Außenlager in Heppenheim. In: Echo. 06.01.2018. http://www.echo-online.de/lokales/bergstrasse/heppenheim/vom-erinnern-und-vergessen-das-kz-aussenlager-in-heppenheim_18432630.htm [link-preview url=”http://www.echo-online.de/lokales/bergstrasse/heppenheim/vom-erinnern-und-vergessen-das-kz-aussenlager-in-heppenheim_18432630.htm”]

News Eastern Europe Poland

Auschwitz

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Let’s hope the record number of visitors also learnt something about the causes, the issues, and about what happened to Roma.

– Auschwitz sees record number of visitors in 2017. In: Poland Radio. 03.01.2018. http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/342586,Auschwitz-sees-record-number-of-visitors-in-2017 [link-preview url=”http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/342586,Auschwitz-sees-record-number-of-visitors-in-2017″]

France News Western Europe

Movie and Stereotypes

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The movie “Pure Hearts” from Roberto De Paolis tells the story of a young girl educated by a pious single mother who meets a parking guard who works across a Roma camp. And the Roma are there as a background with all stereotypes.
Good movie certainly, but touchy way to show cast Roma.

– Bande-annonce : vibrez avec les “Coeurs purs” de Roberto De Paolis. In: Paris-Match. 02.01.2018. http://www.parismatch.com/Culture/Cinema/Bande-annonce-vibrez-avec-les-Coeurs-purs-de-Roberto-De-Paolis-1430690
– «Cœurs purs», virulence et passion. In: Libération. 02.01.2018. https://fr.news.yahoo.com/c-urs-purs-virulence-passion-185614556.html [link-preview url=”https://fr.news.yahoo.com/c-urs-purs-virulence-passion-185614556.html”]

News Eastern Europe Slovenia

Slovenia: New Law

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The new law on Roma community has been undergoing public hearing. During this period, 16 complaints were received at the Nationalities Office on the proposed amendments to the law on the Roma community. While, according to some Romani organizations, there are some positive ideas, others point to an even greater discrimination against the Roma and think that the proposed change in the composition of the Council of the Roma community are not positive.
To be watched.

– V javni razpravi o romskem zakonu pripombe na sestavo sveta romske skupnosti in opozorila o diskriminaciji. In: STA. 31.12.2017. https://www.sta.si/2466367/v-javni-razpravi-o-romskem-zakonu-pripombe-na-sestavo-sveta-romske-skupnosti-in-opozorila-o-diskriminaciji [link-preview url=”https://www.sta.si/2466367/v-javni-razpravi-o-romskem-zakonu-pripombe-na-sestavo-sveta-romske-skupnosti-in-opozorila-o-diskriminaciji”]

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Spanish Documentary

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A documentary shown on Spanish TV. Well, a few stereotypes too …

– https://www.facebook.com/franciscovalentin.cortes/videos/1517905554960322/ [link-preview url=”https://www.facebook.com/franciscovalentin.cortes/videos/1517905554960322/”]

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One Rotten Apple

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Yet another illustration that one rotten apple is sufficient to drag us all down into stereotypes. This is the ongoing case of the Mafia in Ostia, the former Rome port on the Tiber, a Mafia where one of the main gang and bosses are Sinti.

– Ostia, sigilli alla sala slot feudo del clan Spada. In: Roma Republica. 27.12.2017. http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/12/27/news/ostia_sigilli_alla_sala_slot_feudo_del_clan_spada-185321351/ [link-preview url=”http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/12/27/news/ostia_sigilli_alla_sala_slot_feudo_del_clan_spada-185321351/”]

Germany News Western Europe

Saul Friedlander

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The writer and Hamburg native Saul Friendlander is interviewed in the context of the inauguration on the 27th of December of a monument on the site of the Hannover railway station. From this place, more than 8’000 Jews, Roma, Sinti and others were sent to their death. Saul Friedlander survived.
He is afraid of the increased denial of the Holocaust. So are we.

– “Meine Heimat ist meine Geschichte”. In: Der Spiegel. 27.12.2017. http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/historiker-saul-friedlaender-a-1147717.html [link-preview url=”http://www.spiegel.de/spiegel/historiker-saul-friedlaender-a-1147717.html”]

News Western Europe United Kingdom

Schools in UK …

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A long article on the discriminations faced by Roma and Travellers’ children in UK schools, with a disproportionally large number of them being expelled.

– Why are Gypsy children often expelled from UK schools? In: Al Jazeera. 30.12.2017. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/gypsy-children-expelled-uk-schools-171229075235572.html [link-preview url=”http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/12/gypsy-children-expelled-uk-schools-171229075235572.html”]

Hungary News Eastern Europe

Hungary: A bit too Easy

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Tibor Ágoston, a Jobbik representative in the city of Debrecen in Eastern Hungary, voted against the local government scholarship for a young Rom. In his speech, he said he would support real talent in Debrecen, but not a “catch all” program.
Jobbik initiated an investigation into the case.
It turns out that Tibor Ágoston was sentenced to a HUF 750,000 (2’500 EUR) in March 2016 for holocaust denial. A nice fellow he certainly is.
He has now made a written statement resigning from all his positions and functions in Jobbik.

– Kilépett a Jobbikból a roma fiatal támogatását megvonó képviselő. In: Index. 28.12.2017. https://index.hu/belfold/2017/12/28/kilepett_a_jobbikbol_a_roma_fiataltol_a_tamogatast_megvono_kepviselo/
– Inkább kilép a Jobbikból a roma fiatalon gúnyolódó debreceni képviselő. In: HVG. 28.12.2017. http://hvg.hu/itthon/20171228_Inkabb_kilep_a_Jobbikbol_a_roma_fiatalon_gunyolodo_debreceni_kepviselo [link-preview url=”https://index.hu/belfold/2017/12/28/kilepett_a_jobbikbol_a_roma_fiataltol_a_tamogatast_megvono_kepviselo/ “]

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