Roma

22.08.2023

Ceija Stojka

Ceija Stojka was an Austrian writer, painter and musician coming from a Roma family that survived the Nazi Holocaust. She was born in 1933 and when she was only eight years old Ceija’s father was deported to the Dachau Concentration …

22.08.2023

Joaquín Cortez

Joaquín Cortes is a Spanish dancer from a Roma family from Córdoba in Southern Spain. Cortes was born in 1969 and soon at the age of 12, he moved to Madrid to start his dancing studies. He was accepted into …

22.08.2023

Esma Redzepova

Esma Redzepova was born in 1943 in Skopje in the former Republic of Yugoslavia (nowadays the Republic of North Macedonia). She is known worldwide for being a singer and composer who gave more than 9,000 concerts all over the world …

21.08.2023

Sofia Taikon

Sofia Taikon was a Polish woman of Roma origin who was deported to Auschwitz concentration camp in 1943 during the Second World War by the Nazi forces. She was deported with her family because of their ethnic origin. One year …