History

The international Romani flag. (PHOTO: Embassy of the United States of America to the Czech Republic)
50th anniversary of the international movement of Romani people celebrated worldwide
8.4.2021 10:30 full story
Overview of the online commemorations of the 50th anniversary of the Romani movement already underway!
7.4.2021 13:13 full story
This year marks the 76th anniversary of the Nazi murder of Romani people in a detention camp in Slovakia
2.3.2021 7:16 full story
Deadline for applications to Romani Studies at Charles University is the end of February
18.2.2021 6:49 full story
February marks the 62nd anniversary of communist Czechoslovakia forcibly sedentarizing Romani people
5.2.2021 10:08 full story
Czech archaeologists find remains of yet another WWII-era concentration camp for Roma
12.11.2020 6:59 full story
Thirty years ago, Czechoslovak President Havel spoke on the right of Romani people to their national self-awareness
30.7.2020 10:36 full story
Czech website on the Holocaust launches database of victims labeled "cikáni" by the Nazis and their accomplices
19.7.2020 13:40 full story
Civil society members of the Czech Govt Council on Roma Minority Affairs differ on whether Human Rights Commissioner should remain in office
17.1.2020 11:35 full story
Czech Republic's Museum of Romani Culture announces competition to design the memorial at the site of the former concentration camp for Romani people at Lety
15.10.2019 8:12 full story
videoOn the 50th anniversary of Czechoslovakia's short-lived Union of Gypsies-Roma, community members recall its hopes
4.9.2019 7:05 full story
US Holocaust Museum offers unique opportunity in Prague to relatives of those persecuted on Protectorate territory
6.6.2019 17:49 full storyPetra Gelbart: Auschwitz Museum says recent research finds the Romani prisoners' uprising was not on 16 May 1944
17.5.2019 14:27 full story
International Romani Union expresses solidarity and sorrow over the fire at Notre Dame cathedral
18.4.2019 9:56 full story
Lety after the Romani genocide, Part Two: Survivors erect a cross, protests against pig farm ignored
16.12.2018 11:47 full storyLety after the Romani genocide, Part One: Local authorities wanted to build another camp there for Roma after the war
4.12.2018 7:14 full story