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Wednesday, Mar 20, 1996
The Last Gypsy in Auschwitz
In the 1960s, a community of Polish Gypsies found a river by which to set up camp; unbeknownst to them, it was adjacent to the town, and the now-deserted camps, of Oswiecim, known to the world as Auschwitz. It was in this camp that many of their parents and grandparents had died, and it would be in this town that they would become subject to the government's official settlement of the Gypsies. This policy forced Gypsy families into blocks of dreary flats and children into schools where they were doomed to fail. The townspeople eventually took up the matter in an unofficial modern-day pogrom; shades of the old Oswiecim/Auschwitz. The Last Gypsy is a fascinating interview with Gypsy activist Roman Kwiatowski, who offers a portrait of his people and the indomitable spirit of resistance he inherited from them.
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