Lucie SlabaSchool of Social Studies Usti nad LabemWhen I was about seven and in first grade I was coming home with a friend. I don’t remember this very well, but I know that we met two Romany boys. We didn’t do anything bad, we were just walking and laughing about something. But all of a […]
John Erwin
I don’t live with them; I don’t know them.
Ivana BroftovaSchool of Social StudiesUsti nad LabemI’m curious about one thing: who are they? What nationality are they? Where did they come from?There’s one Romany family in Vedomice where I live. I don’t see them very often. I occasionally see their four children. I don’t even know their names. I think they try to look […]
Is racism a threat that may come true?
Jiri NovakSchool of Social StudiesUsti nad LabemAt the beginning of the past century a not very well known Adolf Hitler who was working as a house painter published a book called “Mein Kampf.” In 1945 the people who liberated the Nazi camps were terrified by what they saw: rows and rows of dead bodies, some […]
Jews, Jews, Jews: I didn’t want to be one of them
Katerina SidonovaPrague The Czech Jewish Community needed a rabbi. There was nobody else able to do the job, so my dad went to Israel to study to become a rabbi.His father’s father was Jewish. My dad’s induction as a rabbi was taking place in the Jerusalem Synagogue in Prague. I arrived half an hour early. […]
I am Katerina
Katerina SidonovaPraguei.My father’s father was Jewish. I never met him. He died during World War II when my dad was only two years old. He was killed in the Small Fortress in Terezin, the Nazi camp. That was all I knew about my grandfather.ii. There was a portrait of my grandfather, an oil painting. It […]
Don’t keep it a secret: you have parents who can help you
Lenka Usti nad Labem I attended the sixth class in an elementary school. There was nothing special about it –- just that I found out that kids in our class were not very happy to have me in the same class because I’m Romany. I don’t know what happened to them, but all of a […]
So who took the money?
I attend the 5th grade of an elementary school in Usti nad Labem. The children from our class like me and accept me, but still they have some kind of an instinct inside telling them I am Romany. I am trying to hold on. It was a normal day like any other at school: you […]
Maybe it’s getting worse
Students at the Vranovska Street School in BrnoNatalie Havrdova, Sandra and Karolina We three are best friends. When something happens to one of us it’s as if it happened to all of us. We’re very joyful: that is why we laugh all the time. Our schoolmates call us bad names. Natalka is treated the worst […]
How can Roms have a white tent?
"New Roles for Roma in an Integrated Europe?”Session III, ARTS OF TOLERANCEDiscussions, Workshops and Performances organized by the Stories Exchange Project in Terezin, formerly a Nazi concentration camp from which Jews were sent to Auschwitz Eva BajgerovaUsti nad LabemRomany AssistantRegional GovernmentLocal CoordinatorThe Stories Exchange Project What has the Stories Exchange Project meant for our region? […]
I had a vision about how to build a team of people
Eva BajgerovaRomany AssistantOffice of the Regional GovernmentUsti nad LabemThe Stories Exchange Project is about sharing experience. It’s about meeting other people and getting to know them. It’s a mutual relationship, a mutual communication, an exchange of knowledge and skills.I had a vision about how to build a team of people who would go around town […]
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