Franz Roselbach, a Roma survivor of the Holocaust who was sent to Auschwitz when he was 15, attends a ceremony at the former Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 2006. Sean Gallup/Getty Images When the ...
New Orleans will soon host a unique cultural celebration that shines a light on the rich traditions and resilience of the Romani people. Welcome to Romanistan, a three-day festival taking place from ...
Gypsyfortuneteller is still a popular, but unfortunate, Halloween costume. Fortune telling, particularly cartomancy in this case, isn’t a parlor trick or trending fad for Romani people ― it’s a ...
The Roma arrived in Europe hundreds of years ago from present-day Rajasthan in northern India—and they still aren’t welcome in many quarters. For centuries their lot has been hatred and prejudice, ...
The literary scholar’s The Roma blends a history of Romani persecution and civil rights struggles with her own experiences of discrimination as a Roma woman in Britain. Your book is partly a memoir ...
This piece, written by Mary Drosopoulos and Oana Dumbrava, was first published by Osservatorio Balcani e Caucaso Transeuropa (OBC Transeuropa) in December 2024. Global Voices has republished an edited ...
(The Conversation) — Many young people today know little about the murder of European Jews during the Holocaust, and even less about the murder of Romani communities. (The Conversation) — When the ...