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The Prignano sulla Secchia (Modena) concentration camp
The camp in Prignano sulla Secchia, in the province of Modena, is the source of the most evident signs of the ethnically-based census and rounding up activities organised by prefects and police forces in response to arrest efforts targeted towards ‘gypsies’ throughout the kingdom. In 2010, the town’s municipal administration, in collaboration with the Them…
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The Bojano concentration camp
The former Saim tobacco factory, a few metres from the railway, was chosen as the site for a concentration camp in the summer of 1940. It was not immediately reserved for Roma and Sinti, although a large proportion of the deportees were ‘Gypsies’. A document about the camp indicated among other things that it could…
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The Agnone concentration camp
The Agnone camp is as present in the memory of the Roma and Sinti communities as it is absent and unknown to the historiography of the majority culture. Zlato Bruno Levak had narrated its events in ‘Lacio Drom’ in 1976, the magazine published by the Gypsy Study Centre and directed by Mirella Karpati: “In Italy…
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The concentration camp of Tossicia
The history of the Tossicia camp is linked to the project to purge Sinti and Roma in Istria. Rave Hudorovic had already spoken about it: ‘Then one day we were standing in a place, Rasuplje is its name, and the Italians arrived. We were many Sinti together, fifty people, maybe more. My wife’s whole family…
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Roma and Sinti people in Auschwitz. The account of Michele Andreola
Sinti and Roma people at Auschwitz were destined for sector BIIe of Birkenau, called the Zigeunerlager (the Gypsy camp). Here Michele Andreola, guide-educator at the Auschwitz Museum, tells the story of that area of Birkenau, until its liquidation on 2 August 1944. Roma and Sinti people in Europe faced a history of persecution, deportation and…
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Porrajmos, a disputed word
In international institutions, the term used to refer to the extermination of Roma and Sinti people is ‘Porrajmos’ or ‘Porajmos’ – a word that in Romanes means ‘devouring’ and refers to the desecration of life. The term was proposed by Ian Hancock, a Roma professor at the University of Austin, Texas, to refer to the…
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The definition of Antigypsyism
The most widely used definition of ‘Antigypsyism’ – a concept that rather recently entered European political parlance owing to initiatives by the European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI). It is a term coined in the late 1990s and early 2000s, when ECRI issued Recommendations specifically geared towards combating racism and intolerance against Sinti and…
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Special Eurobarometer 493. Discrimination in the European Union
The Eurobarometer on Discrimination, presented in September 2019, focuses on people’s perceptions, attitudes and opinions on discrimination, based on ethnic origin, skin colour, sexual orientation, gender, age, disability, religion or belief. Overall, it shows that discrimination is perceived to be less widespread than it was according to the 2015 Eurobarometer. However, results still vary widely,…
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The guardian of the names of Roma and Sinti people at Auschwitz-Birkenau
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