From the series: Gypsies and Travellers, Stockport, 1971 © Daniel Meadows Aerial view 1976 General view of Portwood, seen from the railway bridge on Lancashire Hill. The Alligator Rainwear factory can be seen in the top right of the picture – 1979 By 1982 the motorway has arrived –...
In 1940 Germans occupied France, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Austria, and Hungary, and acted on the policy of extermination of unwanted peoples that nearly resulted in destroying the Jews and Gypsies of Europe. Hitler's troops rounded up Jews in Germany and in other countries forcing them to give...
From the series: Gypsies and Travellers, Stockport, 1971 © Daniel Meadows Aerial view 1976 General view of Portwood, seen from the railway bridge on Lancashire Hill. The Alligator Rainwear factory can be seen in the top right of the picture – 1979 By 1982 the motorway has arrived –...
Europe is home to 10-12 million Roma-a group of people often called “gypsies”. Many Roma are poor. In some places, they are also treated less ___ than others. In the Czech Republic, Roma teens meet for a hip-hop class called “Rap for Peace Hip-Hop.” Their instructor is Shameem...
forms of national travel: some operated as licensed or patronised players and purveyors, while others acted as ‘independent’ parties who were legally regarded as equivalent to the ‘mobile poor, along with other itinerant groups such as gypsies [who] were increasingly criminalized and persecuted...
There is religion, sex, assault, death, gypsies, and, obviously, a hunchback. (I won’t spoil anything about it, just in case you haven’t seen it – you probably should.) The last song ended with these lyrics: “Someday. Life will be kinder. Love will be blinder. Some new ...
It offers coverage of standard geographic and ethnic units—such as Scandinavia, Korea, or the Gypsies—in the modern period. Significant institutions such as the International Red Cross and the League of Nations are treated at length. Comprehensive coverage enables readers to broaden their research ...
The Nazi mystique of blood and soil was bound up with Blavatsky’s idea that certain "root races," in which she included Jews and Gypsies, were obsolete. She did not say that they should be exterminated, but some German occultists did. Some French occultists had demonized Jews as well. ...
were the cause of the economic woes of Germany at the time. Other victims of the Holocaust include Gypsies, Homosexuals, and Disabled People. Nazis would use badges, look for features, and look for Jewish names to identify Jews. Jews were sent ...
I'd have tackled, say, the tensions between Hungarians and Tzigani - gypsies - instead." Pressing him further, an entirely different reason emerges. He was born during the war in 1944, in what was then Transylvania. His father was a lawyer, his mother a pianist. "We had to keep ...