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Romani museum presents country's first Romani organisation

ČTK An exhibition on the activities of the first officially recognised Romany organisation in the Czech Lands - the Gypsies-Romanies Union of the 1960s - opened in the Museum of Romany Culture in Brno Thursday, Lucie Matejkova,...

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Czechs commemorate Romani Holocaust victims

Hodonin u Kunstatu, South Moravia, Aug 23 (CTK) - Some 50 people attended a meeting and mass in memory of the victims of Romani Holocaust on the site of former wartime internment camp for Czech Romanies in Hodonin u Kunstatu...

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Czech mate...Lily the lion is leaving Belfast Zoo

This is Simon the Barbary lion, soon to be joined in Hodonin Zoo by Lily. Belfast Zoo's most famous resident, Lily the lion, is leaving on Wednesday to travel to a new home in Eastern Europe. Two-year-old Lily was the first...

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Gypsies seek recognition at Holocaust conference

Prominent Gypsy leader says 'genocide of the Roma population' at hands of Nazis during World War II has never been fully recognized Associated Press Gypsies attending an international conference on the Holocaust said Monday the...

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Czech minister to start foundation to buy out pig farm in Lety

Lety - Czech Minorities and Human Rights Minister Michael Kocab said he wants to create a foundation to buy out the pig farm in Lety that stands on the site of a former Nazi concentration camp for Romanies. The Committee for...

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Czech govt approves memorial on site of Romany WWII camp in Lety

Prague - The Czech government today decided to establish a place of commemoration in Lety, south Bohemia, on the site of a former wartime internment camp for Romanies, Minister for Human Rights and Ethnic Minorities Michael...

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