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16 May - Romane Resistance against Nazi Germany

What happened on 16 May 1944? In the extermination camp of Auschwitz II – Birkenau, section BIIe was called the "Gypsy Camp" (Zigeuner Lager).

Some of the Romani people transported into the hell of Auschwitz by the Nazis were not gassed immediately upon arrival, but were placed in the Zigeuner Lager. BIIe was a "mixed" camp, which meant children, men and women were imprisoned there together.  The Romani prisoners were forced into slave labor, observed and subjected to medical tests, and tortured. Dr Josef Mengele of the SS, a sadistic psychopath known as the "Angel of Death", chose Romani individuals, most of them children, to subject to perverse experiments. 

During the night of 2 August and the early morning of 3 August 1944, all of the prisoners of the camp, without exception, were murdered in the gas chambers. Because of this known, official history, 2 August has been commemorated as Romani Holocaust Day. The Nazis had actually wanted to close BIIe and murder its Romani prisoners in the gas chambers earlier than that, on 16 May 1944. At the time there were more than 6 000 Romani prisoners there. 

On 15 May, the underground resistance movement in the camp warned the Roma of what the Nazis were planning. On the morning of 16 May, the Romani prisoners did not show up for the usual morning roll call and ceased cooperating with the SS guards. The Roma barricaded themselves into their shanties. They had broken into an equipment warehouse and armed themselves with hammers, pickaxes and shovels, taking apart the wooden sections of the bunks they slept on to make wooden stakes. The children collected rocks. When the SS guards entered the camp in the late afternoon to take the Roma to the gas chambers, they began to fight for their lives.  The Roma fought to the death. Children, men, and women all fought.  
 
Auschwitz had never experienced anything like it before and would not experience it again. There were losses on both sides.  The SS were in shock because they had completely failed to anticipate this resistance. Concerned they might lose more men and that the uprising might spread to other parts of Auschwitz, they retreated from camp BIIe.

No Roma died in the gas chambers that day. The Nazis subsequently put the prisoners of BIIe on a starvation diet. On 23 May 1944, the Nazis moved 1 500 of the strongest Romani prisoners to Auschwitz I, many of whom were then sent to Buchenwald concentration camp. On 25 May 1944, 82 Romani men were transported to the Flossenburg concentration camp and 144 young Romani women were sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp.  

Less than 3 000 Romani prisoners remained in the family camp at BIIe, most of them children. On 2 August 1944, the Nazis gassed them all to death in gas chamber V, although the Roma fought back on that dark night as well. Glory and honor to the memory of these Romani heroes!

For four years, the Helsinki police kept a logbook of Finnish Roma

According to information from the Finnish Broadcasting Corporation, the police stopped Finnish Roma in Helsinki in 2013-2017 and systematically wrote information about Roma movements, the vehicles used by Roma and the groups in which they moved in the police blog. In the same context, entries were also made, for example, for knives or other weapons found. About 3,000 Roma live in the Helsinki Metropolitan Area, and about 1,000 police records were collected over four years.

The police activities were related to the internal guidelines issued by the Helsinki Police Department in autumn 2013. It ordered police patrols to intervene at a low threshold for all violations detected during surveillance and any other findings. According to Yle's information, the instruction was interpreted in the field so that Roma were stopped without legal grounds and their information was taken up.

Roma organizations and the police have sought to build co-operation in recent years, and this keeping of the police logbook can be seen as ethnic profiling. The National Police Board of Finland has launched a study on the operations of the Helsinki Police Department.

 

Link: https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-11920475?fbclid=IwAR2yNhqQc96f8pd9vMn0SRijVaCc_sKAgHvwYuuPHkKHNgW

 

Serbia: Organizing weddings and other festivities for up to 200 people, possibly starting in June

If the number of newly infected people falls and if the vaccination is carried out on a larger scale, it is possible to expect celebrations of up to 200 people after June, but with precautions.

This is what the epidemiologist and member of the Crisis Staff prof. Dr. Branislav Tiodorovic notes that the first goal is the number of less than 1,000 infected per day, writes Kurir.

Weddings, celebrations, graduations, baptisms, will certainly not be in May, but depending on the epidemiological situation, after June, if everything goes according to plan, maybe we could think in that direction.

But there is a fear, if we say that a wedding of up to 50 people is possible, who will respect that? Then a third of the restaurant, the hotel will be used for weddings, and that is the question of whether it will be so. However, if the number of newly infected people falls, the vaccination will be more energetic, more extensive, maybe after June we can have celebrations for up to 200 people, but with precautionary measures - says Professor Tiodorovic.

Saban Bajramovic at the most famous museum exhibition in America

The famous Blues Delta Mississippi Museum sent a letter to the project manager of the Jazz Festival in Nishville, Jelena Ivanjac, in which he expressed his intention and desire to organize an exhibition for the musician Saban Bajramovic, known as the King of Roma Music.

The museum is dedicated to exploring the history and heritage of the unique American musical art form of the blues. The museum is located in the city of Clarksdale - the center of blues culture from the 1920s and is the oldest music museum in the country.

Many now legendary music artists were born and raised in and around Clarksdale, such as Maddie Waters, Johnon Lee Hooker, Son House, Ike Turner, Jackie Branston, Sam Cook, junior Parker, and W. Х. Handy, among them.

According to the communication with the management of the festival in Nishville, the Executive Director of the Delta Blues Museum, Shelley Ritter, sent a letter to Jelena Ivanjev on May 5, in which he expressed interest in organizing an exhibition on behalf of the museum. Mississippi Delta region.

Link: https://phralipen.hr/2021/05/10/saban-bajramovic-dobiva-postavku-u-jazz-i-blues-muzeju-u-americi/

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