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The workshop at Lety u Písku, site of the former WWII-era concentration camp for Romani people, held as part of the international student conference on 20th Century European Roma Identity in December 2017. (PHOTO: Terezín Initiative Institute)
Czech Republic: International student conference on "European Roma Identity in the 20th Century"
11.12.2017 6:41 From 7-9 December 2017 a student conference entitled "European Roma Identity in the 20th Century" took place in Prague at the Scout Institute. The event was organized by Antikomplex and the Terezín Initiative Institute in collaboration with other partners in a project of the same name. full story
David Beňák on the Czech inclusive education debate, the invisible, and the unheard
23.3.2016 21:27 Educating all children together is a basic, normal approach to education that must be the standard in the Czech Republic. It is a good standard to set ourselves. full story
Film about Czechoslovak experiment with Romani children wins best documentary from Olomouc Film Academy
3.5.2015 2:31 A documentary film by Czech Television, "Suppressed Letters" (Zatajené dopisy) about an experimental school for Romani children in 1950s Czechoslovakia, has won the prize for best Czech popular science documentary from the Academia Film Olomouc. At the beginning of the experiment, children attended the boarding school voluntarily, but later attended after being forcibly taken away from their families on the presumption that their ties with their parents would be broken. full story