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January 27 - Holocaust Remembrance Day. This is a day to remember all 6 million victims of the Nazi Holocaust, also known as the Shoah for Jewish people and Porajjmos/Samudaripen for Rroma.

April 8th - International Rromani Day. This date commemorates the date when we solidified in 1972 as a united people. This is when we gained our flag and even a form of a "national anthem" called Djelem Djelem. It is a celebration of Rromani culture around the world.

May is a big month for us, with 3 holidays.

May 5th - Erdelezi/Feast of St. George. This is mostly celebrated by Eastern Orthodox and Balkan Rroma. It is celebrated with music dancing flowers and food! There is a song called Erdelezi that is about this.

May 16th - Rromani Resistance Day. It is a day that celebrates our strength and courage as a people. On May 16th in the Auschwitz-Birkenau G*psy Family Camp, which was the camp headed by SS Dr. Josef Mengele. While he was stationed in Auschwitz, he never performed his nasty evilness (including the famous twins experiments) on the Jewish population contrary to popular belief. His Jewish victims were from a different camp in Poland where he worked in the late 30s before being stationed as head of the G*psy Family Camp from 1940 to 1944.

Anyway on May 16th, 1944, the Nazis decided to "liquidate" everyone in the G*psy Family Camp. We had gotten wind of this, and barricaded ourselves and fought so strongly that the Nazis backed down and no rroma died that day. My great grandmother, the story goes, dug into the wood of the floorboards to arm herself with the nails that she no longer had fingerprints so badly her fingertips were scarred.

May 20th - Feast of the 3 Marys/Feast of Saint Sara la Kali. Sara la Kali is a folk saint, who is not officially canonized but is still recognized. She is considered the patron Saint of the Rromani people. As such millions of Rroma pilgrimage to Southern France and bedeck her icon with flowers before ritualistically placing her in water. This is extremely similar to Hindu practices, and is a hint to our origins in India.

Early June- this is usually when the Appleby Horse Faire takes place in England. Romany, Welsh Kale, and Irish/Welsh/Scots Gypsies and travellers all gather in Appleby-in-Westmorland to trade and sell horses.

The month of June is GRT (Gypsy Rromani Traveller) history month.

2nd August - Rromani Holocaust Remembrance day. This is the date we were freed from the camps. It is another day of remembering those we had lost during the Samudaripen and beyond.

Opre Rroma!

i wish we had a forum for liek actual intelligent discussion like odd vitsas no ones heard abt or ones that r jst rlly small n like strange happenings in families n small towns

goofy meme pages disstracks n ppl who aren’t liek 11 yearz old tryin to act like a 72 year old man ppl into nerdy ass shit

n also making fun of boyash n the 1% “erm my mothers, cousins, brother, sister-in-law’s, husbands, cousin’s, veterinarian, was 0.00.0.2% greek and 0.00.⅛ balkan. am i gypsy?? how can i reconnect with my lost heritage? will ppl talk to me if i walk into pops fish market??”

n the writers who want a odd ethnicity character in their novel that’s never gonna leave their bedroom as a excuse for a plot device or “majickal powaz!!”

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WE ENDURED ACTUAL CHATTEL SLAVERY.

Not Indentured servitude or whatever parne gadje want to call it. But actual chattel slavery where a human being is an object or livestock that can be bought and sold or killed on a whim. Tell me does this:

The social condition of slaves was pitiful. They could be beaten, sold or killed at the discretion of their masters. If a free person married a slave, he or she attracted the free one to the slave ranks, as well as the resulting children. Depending on his own interest, the master could allow the slave the right to marry, including the right to annul the marriage without his knowledge and to break up the family.

If a slave killed another person’s slave, he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was not carried out, the one who killed taking the place of the one killed. Among the groups of gypsy slaves, some were recruited to be appointed group leaders, also known as Juzi domnești. These judges were assigned to the counties and their main task was not to let any slave leave the county and to look for those who had run away and hand them over to their masters. Those who fled were given the harshest of punishments, such as walking în the streets while the passers-by were encouraged to spit on them, hanging by ropes in the stables over animals or being tied up and thrown into the raging waters with the promise that if they survive, they will be freed. In  winter, they were thrown naked în the snow or frozen rivers. Gypsy servants from the manor courts made up the staff of servants, seamstresses, maids and randais. The utterly inhumane treatment of slaves was experienced in the gentry families from the earliest ages, with fathers encouraging their offspring to whip and torment the children on their property. Physical violence against servants was not only carried out by men, but often even women in the gentry practised these cruel acts. Young Roma girls were forced to have sexual relations with their masters.

Sound familiar? It should to Black Americans and American Indigenous people.

What if I told you this was happening for 200 years before the Transatlantic slave trade? Romani chattel slavery spanned 500 years(from about the 1370s to 1856). It is tied with the enslavement of Black Americans for the longest continuous period of chattel enslavement in the history of the world. This is to the point where the term for us in many countries is based on the Greek word for slave, Tsigan.

And just like Black Americans, once we were "freed" Romanian authorities and politicians gave us nothing to support ourselves. We weren't even legally allowed land or stable businesses on which to support ourselves. Often they went to re-enslaving us into prisons, gold/silver mines, and later, SELLING US TO LITERAL NAZI's to die. We still endure systemic in Europe and to a lesser extent America (there IS in fact an anti gypsy task force). Our women are raped and our men are killed by the police and it's seen as nothing but getting rid of vermin. Our children are stolen from us to be adopted into proper white families. Most of us are uneducated and illiterate because of inherent bias in our schooling.

So no, your Irish great-great-great- great grandfather who was an indentured servant in America has no clue what it would be like as an actual chattel slave.

This is what Gypsy Soul and Blood is. This is why our culture is important to us. This is why gypsy is a slur. Why your gypsy fortune teller costume and gypsy curse should be considered as offensive as minstrel shows and blackface.