The Day of Romani Resistance

Meet Roma Heroes - Romani resistance

Meet Roma Heroes - Romani resistance

Re-thinking Roma Resistance is a European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture (ERIAC) project, developed to initiate change in the European historical and cultural narrative concerning Roma.

The Regional Cooperation Council Roma Integration joined this project by implementing the campaign "Stories of Roma resistance", where you can read individual stories of Roma heroism and bravery. The stories below are evidence of multiple ways in which Roma not only fought against oppression and injustice, but also the evidence of Roma's contribution to struggles for freedom, democracy, and justice in the region, but also across Europe.


ALEKSAS ALEKSANDRAVIČIUS - Lithuania

ALEXANDR BAUROV - Ukraine

ALFREDA MARKOWSKA - Poland

ANTON FACUNA - Slovakia

BACRO KVEC - Romania

CYNJA MYKOLA - Ukraine

CZARDAS AND JEANNEDICA JOSEF - Scandinavia

DMITRO ANTONENKO - Ukraine

DRAGOLJUB ACKOVIĆ - Serbia

FRANJO STEVANOVIĆ ĆEVO - Croatia

HANNA DIMITRI - Scandinavia

HELIOS GÓMEZ - Spain

ILONA RAFFAEL - Hungary

IOANA TINCULEASA RUDAREASA - Romania

IVAN BILASHCHENKO - Ukraine

JANKO NIKOLIĆ - Croatia

JÁN LACKO - Slovakia

JOHAN LAURITZEN - Scandinavia

JOHANN “RUKELI“ TROLLMANN - Germany

JOSEF SERINEK - Slovakia

JOSIP – JOKA NIKOLIĆ - Croatia

JOŽEK HORVAT “MUC” - Slovenia

JÓZSEF KAKUCZI - Hungary

KATARINA TAIKON - Scandinavia

LAJOS KÁNYA - Hungary

MANOCH “NANOCHE” GORGAN - France

MARGARETE “CEIJA“ HORVATH STOJKA - Austria

MILAN RADOSAVLJEVIĆ - Croatia

MILICA KATIĆ - Serbia

NADIR DEDIĆ - Bosnia and Herzegovina

OSKAR ROSE - Germany

RAJKO ĐURIĆ - Serbia

RAYMOND GURÊME - France

ROSA CORTÉS - Spain

SANDULENCO PROCOP SANDULENCO GAVRILA - Ukraine

SLOBODAN BERBERSKI - Serbia

SOFIA TAIKON - Scandinavia

SOLEDAD CASILDA HERNÁEZ VARGAS AKA LA MILICIANA - Spain

STANISŁAW NAZAREWICZ - Poland

ŠTEFAN NIKOLIĆ - Croatia

STEVAN ĐORĐEVIĆ NOVAK - Serbia

TEODORA JABLONSKAITĖ - Lithuania

TIHOMIR NIKOLIC TIKO - Croatia

VASILE STRATAN - Romania

WERONIKA GOGA - Poland

ŽARKO JOVANOVIĆ - Serbia

ZOFIA CHOJNACKA - Poland

ZOFIJA (SOFIJA) BERESNEVIČIŪTĖ-SINKEVIČIENĖ - Lithuania

ZSUZSANNA HORVÁTH - Hungary

ZUBKOV GEORGII - Ukraine