February 2012
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"Aj Řomale thaj Šavale!" first attempt pages, and...
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A lot of pages, so actually putting it under a cut!
I had been working on this for a while, but I have gotten stuck so often, that I decided that I shall simply start from the part that I know, and not the very, very beginning. Maybe have flashbacks to earlier parts. I doubt I will end up doing anything with these pages, and I’m not entirely happy with them now since I have figured...
January 2012
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Links on Roma and the Holocaust
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(note that some use the term “gypsy”)
ALSO—unrelated to the Roma victims of the Holocaust, but some of my favourite historical figures pertaining to this terrible period in history
An online exhibition about Chiune Sugihara
Frank Foley, forever my hero
Personal note to followers:
I am incredibly lucky that my family didn’t have to face the...
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Roma victims of the Holocaust
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A group of Romani prisoners, awaiting instructions from their German captors, sit in an open area near the fence in the Belzec concentration camp.
Romani (commonly but incorrectly called Gypsies) were considered by the Nazis to be social outcasts. Under the Weimar Republic—the German government from 1918 to 1933—anti-Romani laws became widespread. These laws required...
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EU becoming less tolerant, NGO says →
Tunisian migrants in Italy - not the welcome the Arab Spring refugees had expected (Photo: Valentina Pop)
BRUSSELS - Racist mobs in Greece and Hungary, mistreatment of Roma, Arab migrants and Muslim terrorist suspects and a feeble reaction by EU institutions point to a worrying right-wing shift inside the European Union, according to US-based NGO Human Rights Watch.
The most shocking racist attack...
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Is there discrimination on Bulgarian labor market? →
Are all Bulgarians, looking for a job, equal? A research of the Open Society Institute answers that question, being a partner at the Equality as a Path to Progress Project. The other participants in the initiative are the ministry of labor and social policy and the commission for protection against discrimination.
The poll was conducted among 1,200 individuals across the entire country. Another...
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Czech exhibit on International Holocaust... →
The following is a press release from the organizers of an exhibition entitled “Do You Think It’s Behind Us?”. The exhibition at the Oblástní Galerie Vysočiny in Jihlava will run until 4 February.
For the most part, Czech society links the issue of fascism and Nazism with the period of the Second World War. This is a time period which most of us no longer remember and which has...
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Czech Romanies establish new party →
Prague - The new Equal Opportunities Party (SRP) wants to defend the interests of not only Romanies, but of all Czech socially weak citizens, Stefan Tiser, who was elected its leader at its constituent meeting today, has told CTK.
Tiser is a member of the Romany Holocaust Compensation Committee.
The posts of deputy chairpersons will be held by Cenek Ruzicka, chairman of the Romany Holocaust...
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Studying the Romani Experience in the Modern... →
Ethel Brooks couldn’t help but take it personally when she learned of a Romani, or Gypsy, community in London that was uprooted by government authorities to make room for the 2012 Olympics.
Brooks, a professor of sociology and women’s and gender studies in the School of Arts and Sciences, is of British Romani descent and has her own painful memories of community dissolution.
While growing up in...
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Czech Republic: 200 people attend anti-Romani... →
After a three-month hiatus, about 200 people met on the main square in the Czech town of Varnsdorf Sunday afternoon for yet another anti-Romani demonstration. Petr Heinrich, a resident of Varnsdorf, convened the event under the slogans “Law and order” and “The right to timely and truthful information”. Organizers also invited ultra-right extremists from the Workers’...
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WatchRoma children deported from Germany to Kosovo into poverty and no school
I am making a feature length observational documentary on Roma children deported from Germany in conjunction with the Guardian newspaper.
Despite numerous media campaigns in Germany, children are still being deported into conditions like in this video. It must be stopped. The aim of this film is to create a powerful...
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Former Moldovan Official Ordered To Apologize For... →
CHISINAU — A former high-ranking Moldovan government official has been found guilty of racist remarks against the Romany community and ordered to apologize, RFE/RL’s Moldovan Service reports.
A Chisinau court ruled that Anatol Plugaru, a former director of Moldova’s intelligence service and an ex-parliament deputy, offended Roma when he said in public in February 2010 that...
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Roma under fire in French election campaign →
BRUSSELS - Another 100 hundred days and the French presidential campaign will come to a head. Never far away from the political disputes among the top contenders is immigration. And the Roma, along with irregular migrants, are once again centre stage.
French presidential campaign steps up rhetoric against irregular migrants. (Photo: Magne Haagen)
On Tuesday (10 January), France’s interior...
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Berlin's Roma want more than toleration →
I see her almost daily out front of the supermarket, holding up the newspaper sold by the homeless, hoping as much for a donation as a sale. Middle-aged, slight, wearing a headscarf and thick coat, she looks to be freezing and forlorn, but strains a smile when some rare change arrives in her hand.
“I come from Romania,” she says in very broken German. “There was no work, no food...
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The Lost Treasure Of Humanity: Gypsy Languages →
Peoples who belong to Gypsy Universal Community have spoken more than one languages for thousands of years. Gypsy peoples speak languages of non-Gypsies they live in same society. On the other hand, they also maintain their own languages. Gypsy languages which is one of the most important elements of cultural heritage of humanity is not known sufficiently.
Gypsy peoples who live in same society...
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Czech Republic: Investigation says pensioner shot... →
Murder or any other sort of homicide with intent have been ruled out in the case of the tragic shooting in Tanvald (Jablonec district) in which a 22-year-old Romani man died and another was seriously injured on New Year’s Day. Lenka Bradáčová, Deputy State Regional Prosecutor, announced the findings to the Czech Press Agency today. She said the 63-year-old shooter defended himself after...
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nevipen katar e brazilia phrala
I was happy with the content of this blog. And I take the time to make a call: Come learn about the Gypsies of Brazil www.embaixadacigana.com.br
Opre Rromale
T’aven baxtalen
Nicolas Ramanush
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„Muri angluni Biblia” shavorenge →
„Muri angluni Biblia” shavorenge, kathar o Zoltan Vesho Farkas: Numa unyi bers nashile datunchara, hoj e Zoltan Vesho Farkas pej lovaricki shib boldas e intrego Biblia, le Dulmutano thaj Nyevoteshtamenticko Suntoiskiripe. Leski butyi aba atunchi baro kuchipe das la lumaka romana literaturake.
Kodi pustikako inkaljutno o Sunto Jeromosh Jekhetanipe sas, ando 2008 bersh. Akanak amaro nakhavutnari...
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Separate Schools for Roma Challenged
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BRATISLAVA, Jan 16, 2012 (IPS) - A school in Slovakia has defended its decision to segregate Roma children from other students after a court ruled the practice breached equal rights laws. The headmistress of the primary school in Sarisske Michalany, Maria Cvancigerova, said Roma children had been put into classes on their own to ensure they got special attention, and that they had...
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Romani Kids Brass Band
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vermin-salad-colada asked: Hello. I am glad to find your blog. I'm not a typical Tumblr user; I'm a literature professor in college. I did my PhD dissertation on the evolution of the Gypsy figure in literature and western culture, and how the stereotype has clung to the Romani people. I have studied quite a bit and I wish to send my respectful greetings to you. I want to continue to learn. I hope that the west can...
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Today is purano nevo berš
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phari rat was last night (some people celebrate that tonight, too). We burn momêli all night and have a big meal. Generally it’s Orthodox Rroma (and some Muslim Rroma, I’d heard) who celebrate Vasilij… but I grew up with families who did, so wanted to give a shout out.
I’ll be lighting momêli and saying “Baxtalo to lačo dives”… ^_^
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Hackers attack educational website of the ROMEA...
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The educational website of the ROMEA association has become the target of an internet attack. A defamatory text was posted to www.skola.romea.cz criticizing alleged “reverse racism” and “welfare abuse” by Romani people.
The main website of the association, www.romea.cz, has also had problems. Zdeněk Ryšavý, the director of ROMEA, said the news server has not been attacked but has...
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Shooting of Roma man stokes tensions →
Photo: Walter Novak
Tanvald, north Bohemia
For the Roma minority of Tanvald, a quiet town of 10,000 in north Bohemia’s Jizerské Mountains, the Jan. 7 burial of 22-year-old Ladislav Tatár required by-the-books organization. Observed by a population fearing retribution for a mysterious New Year’s Eve shooting that left Tatár dead and his older brother injured, community leaders sought to...
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Under Surveillance: The Roma in Hungary 2012 |... →
Police in Hungary have now been formally instructed by the Chief of National Police to pay specific attention to minorities in their work, referring to what some have called ‘ethnic criminality’. The National Police were issued the instructions on December 30.
The special rules for “working in a multicultural environment” refer to officers handling immigration issues with the advice being issued...
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Kosovo gypsies living in 'toxic' camps →
Brooklyn, New York (VICE.COM) — While the average American’s understanding of the conflict in Kosovo is a simple, two-sided Sneetch-battle between the mountainous region’s dominant Serbian minority and oppressed Albanian majority, the reality is a lot more convoluted than a Wikipedia page or morning radio parody of the Beach Boys’ “Kokomo” can accurately convey....
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Czech Republic: Equal Opportunity Party wants to... →
The Equal Opportunity Party (Strana rovných příležitostí - SRP) was registered with the Czech Interior Ministry last month. The party wants to present itself as one defending the interests of the socially vulnerable, not primarily as a Romani party. SRP definitely intends to participate in the regional elections but has not yet decided about the elections to the Czech Senate.
The party, which...
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Roma Leaders to Watch →
The July/August 2011 issue of Momentfeatured a story called “Invisible Roma” and two other pieces (“Roma in the Holcaust” and “Roma Life Today”) on the Roma people, better known as gypsies. We are proud of these stories, written by Ben Judah and Symi Rom-Rymer, that address the ongoing discrimination against the Roma. One reader, however, wrote a letter to the editor pointing out that Judah’s...
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New Houses Will Be Built For The Families Whose... →
New houses will be built for 17 Gypsy families, whose tents burned in a fire broke out last june in Altınoluk, in Küçüksu Neighbourhood. It’s being planned to complete new houses, which will be built adding second storey to the current houses in Küçüksu neighbourhood, as soon as possible. There are so many families who have to live in tents even in metropolitan cities.
The fire broke out as...
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Czech Police perform reconstruction of shooting... →
This evening police have performed a reconstruction of the shooting incident in Tanvald which caused the death of a Romani youth and injured his brother during the first few minutes of 2012. The surviving victim was not present.
The only journalists on the scene were from the country’s most-watched private station, TV Nova. According to footage they have now broadcast, the shooter was at the...
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Czech expert on extremism resigning due to... →
One of the few expert witnesses on extremism in the Czech Republic, Michal Mazel, has decided to resign due to the constantly increasing pressure on him from those whom he has studied. Diatribes against him, primarily by promoters of the ultra-right, have taken their toll.
The final straw was a charge of bias leveled against him by an attorney for ultra-right activist Lucie Šlégrová, who is on...
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Czech Republic: Romani activist gets threatening... →
The front door to the apartment building in the Přední Skvrňany neighborhood of Plzeň where Romani activist Ivan Koky lives was spray-painted with a red swastika on Sunday evening. Koky is convinced the incident is related to his activities for the “Amare čhave” organization, which he founded two years ago. The organization aims to support the social integration of Romani people and...
