Tereza Stenglova Gymnazium Jan PatockaPragueIt happened when I was starting the eighth grade. Our teacher told us that a new student, a Vietnamese girl, would be coming to our class. I didn’t know then that this girl would become my best friend.Her father was an executive councilor at the Vietnamese embassy, and all the Vietnamese […]
Stories & Responses
My best friend is Romany
Zdenka Rerichova School of Social Studies Usti nad LabemI have nothing against Roma because I have many friends who are Roma. In fact my best friend is Romany. She had an unpleasant experience. Things were getting lost at school; someone was stealing them. She was seen in the classroom, and she was there all alone, […]
He was accused of assault
Michaela CernaSchool of Social StudiesUsti nad LabemMy uncle worked in Predlice in Technoplyn. One evening he was driving home, and when he was going through Predlice, he heard someone shouting. When he slowed down he saw two Gypsy men beating a Gypsy woman. She was calling for help. My uncle stopped, but didn’t know whether […]
Create your own points of view
L.KristanovaSchool of Social StudiesUsti nad Labem I’m sad that many people don’t judge others by their character, but by the color of their skin. They should realize that nobody is able to choose his color. I don’t want to take the side of the black, yellow or white people. I only mean that we can’t […]
And he was white
Lucie KrupickovaSchool of Social StudiesUsti nad LabemThe situation is better nowadays. At least people are talking about it. And I think there were no Roms in politics in the past, but there are today. That’s a step forward.There is one thing I like about Roms: they respect traditions, and they help each other. I mean — when […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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