Names of the Romani people

placed in a semi-private room post-surgery. Hospital policy invoked the following: visiting hours ends at 9:00 pm, only two visitors are allowed in the patient’s room, children under the age of 12 are not allowed on the unit. The clan violated all of the aforementioned hospital policies. Security along with the hospital’s administrator became involved in the situation. Honner and Hoppi, (2004) in a study on the “Enigma of the Gypsy Patient” disclosed that when a Romani (Gypsy) patient comes to the hospital, many members of the extended family will usually come and stay until discharged. Typically, the clan gather in the emergency department or the patient 's room to watch over the patient as a protection from non-Romani influences which are considered harmful. The Gypsies often arrive in large numbers, sometimes "camp" on hospital grounds or in waiting rooms, disregard visiting rules, and disrupt public areas. These family members may expect to remain with the sick patient 24 hours a day. In addition, many Romani patients are afraid of being socially isolated while hospitalized and may become scared or agitated if separated from their family. Cleemput in a study of Gypsies and Travelers’ revealed clan members remain at the bedside of hospitalized persons because of a lack of trust, anticipation of discrimination, poor literacy, and lack of cultural awareness among health staff (2012). The culture promotes a belief entitled Marime. This belief associates the lower body…

When someone says the word Nazi or Holocaust, the first thing that comes to mind for most people is the catastrophic mass murder of millions of Jewish men and women. This of course is true, but what most people don’t know is that over 5 million people who were killed were not Jewish. This mainly consisted of Polish people or people who did not meet the Nazis standard they set for what they believed to be a “perfect human”. So they too were forced into concentration camps and brutally murdered. …

Committee Name: United Human Rights Council (UNHRC) Committee Topic: Situation of the Roma People Country Name: Iraq Recent Background of the Issue In the European Union, Roma people are one of the largest ethnic minorities, they consist about six million out of ten to twelve million people living in the EU. But these Roma people are facing many problems such as social exclusion, discrimination, and unequal opportunities to education, employment, health, and housing. About 71% of the Roma…

The Holocaust was a terrifying and terrible moment in history in which 11 million people had their lives stolen from them. That’s a little more than half the entire population of Florida in 2015, according to the United States Census Bureau. 6 million of these victims were Jews and the other 5 million consisted of a cocktail of different groups the Nazis deemed “inferior”. Romani, Slavic peoples, African-German children, disabled people, Jehovah’s Witnesses, opposers to the Nazi regime,…

Reading the title of the book reveals one of the main characters, Jakob. The back of the book reveals more information about him. He is a Roma boy living in Austria during World War II. He is trying to run from the Nazi’s persecution of the Roma people within Europe. Colors seem to play an important part in the book as they are in the title and are described in the back of the book. This book is a fictional story written by Lindsay Hawdon. After writing this book, she traveled to seven different…

It was first exhibited as Madame XXX, but later removed because of the scandal around the painting. A young pale skinned woman, in a silk black dress with two thin chained straps, had gripping onto the front of the dress, which looked to me like she was showing her figure and the bustle of the fabric. It took 30 sessions to complete the portrait. It was exhibited in the 1884 Paris Salon, and caused a stir right away. Critics like L 'Événement, called it “hideousness”. It portrayed that married…

This number”500,000” (Fold3). isn't just a random simple number its how many innocent Jews,Poles,and Gypsies lost their lives for their beliefs. Image being killed for loving Christ or killed because you spoke in church against the preacher. That's an example of how it was. Now is it right or wrong that's what you believe, but this camp gassed people with toxins to kill them to make their death slow and painful. Why so they could suffer for their “wrong…

II and the Holocaust, the Nazis created at least 1000 ghettos just in Poland and the Soviet Union alone for the millions of Jews they penned up (“Types”). The Holocaust was a time period in which Jewish people were forced into these extremely tiny ghettos and sent away to concentration camps. Over 7 million Jews and 7 million gypsies as well as other “outcasts” were murdered by the Nazi regime throughout the span of World War II. Within every ghetto and killing center, Jews resisted in more ways…

Whenever Poland was captured by the Nazi´s in 1939, Kolbe was captured under general suspicion. He was released three months later. Kolbe helped many refugees escape the Nazis. His community of friars helped over 3,000 people during the war. Kolbe also started a new illegal radio station as well as published a newspaper devoted to Mary that scorned the Nazi´s, it was called Knight of the Immaculate. A little while after he published this newspaper he was arrested for hiding Jews in the friary.…

began to change. Men, women, and children became affected by the Nazi rules and laws. As time passed, men were being treated less and less like citizens. Insults and cruelty towards Jews began to increase. Jewish women formed organizations to provide aid in the worsening times. The League of Jewish Women which formed in 1904, would offer volunteer work, to provide relief (Kaplan, 49). Children were forced out of public schools due to ostracism. These children would then have to attend Jewish…