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Annual commemoration of the Holocaust of the Roma at Lety u Písku, Czech Republic, is postponed due to the pandemic

Romea.cz   Annual commemoration of the Holocaust of the Roma at Lety u Písku, Czech Republic, is postponed due to the pandemic 25.4.2021 16:37 Commemorative ceremony at Lety u Písku, 2 August 2020. (PHOTO: Richard Samko, Romea.cz) Because of the ongoing viral pandemic, the commemorative ceremony that we annually convene on 13 May at the site of the burial ground of the victims of the concentration camp for Romani people near Lety u Písku is being postponed until a more appropriate time from the standpoint of the Government measures, Čeněk Růžička, chair of the Committee for the Redress of the Roma Holocaust in the Czech Republic, told news server Romea.cz on 21 April. During the communist regime in the 1970s, the former location of the camp was partially built over by an industrial pig farm.    

Overview of the online commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Romani movement already underway!

Romea.cz 7.4.2021 13:13 (PHOTO: Petr Zewlakk Vrabec) Celebrations of 8 April are being held online this year because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Concerts and discussions are being held online to mark 50 years since the first World Roma Congress in 1971. The Czech Philharmonic will be performing a gala concert with Romani musician Ida Kelarová, while the Museum of Romani Culture is marking its own 30th anniversary. The day has been celebrated since 1990.   The first international meeting of Romani representatives was held on 8 April 1971 near London. The first World Roma Congress laid the foundations for establishing the International Romani Union. Participants from 14 countries, including the former Czechoslovakia, adopted the Romani anthem and flag, as well as the official designation of themselves with the term Roma . Below is a summary of the events planned for the 50th anniversary.

Terezín Initiative in Czech Republic does not want Romani names included in Shoah commemoration, director of its Institute disagrees

Romea.cz   Terezín Initiative in Czech Republic does not want Romani names included in Shoah commemoration, director of its Institute disagrees 3.4.2021 18:52 The Yom Hashoah event, held throughout the Czech Republic, has involved people publicly reading the names of the Jewish and Romani victims of the Nazi concentration camps since 2010. (PHOTO: Romea.cz) The board of directors of the Institute of the Terezín Initiative (ITI) in the Czech Republic has decided that this year s commemorative reading of the names of the dead on Yom Hashoah will not include the names of the Romani victims of racial persecution in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. However, the director of the ITI, Tereza Štěpková, disagrees with that decision and says the event, which falls on 8 April this year, will go ahead as planned and will read Holocaust victims names from the Romani community.

Czech organizations insist the lower house and Prime Minister reject the anti-Romani remarks of the ombudsman

Czech organizations insist the lower house and Prime Minister reject the anti-Romani remarks of the ombudsman 17.2.2021 7:14 Stanislav Křeček in a report broadcast by the Prima TV station in February 2016 (PHOTO: TV Prima). Representatives of Czech organizations working to promote human rights, people facing adversity and the Romani minority have called on Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš (ANO) and members of the lower house to distance themselves from the remarks of the Czech Public Defender of Rights (the ombudsman), Stanislav Křeček, about Romani people. In their view, the ombudsman is denigrating the office by stirring up hatred and strengthening anti-Romani biases in society.    

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