European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A pics a so runs the Click a arc the last free people in our standardized Civ a Iliza Tion. Gypsies Are those Carefree Swarthy men with droopy Black moustaches and Black eyed women wearing colourful clothes and Golden earrings who Lead terrifically romantic lives when not singing soulful songs around campfires. They Gallivan around in horse drawn wagons and Camp in fireside tents. Oblivious to the pressures and stress of modern life they dance and sing their lives away Reading the occasional Palm tinkering or perhaps stealing a Chicken from Rich Farmer Brown. The Glim reality of recent Gypsy history was thrust upon the Public in March when Central Council of sinti and Roma stepped up its Campaign for restitution from German Industry for the slave labor it was forced to perform during the third Reich. Quot part of the systematic genocide plan for sinti Roma and jews in the occupied areas of Europe was the so called a extinction through work a a said Romani Rose spokesman for the Council. Few remember How european gypsies suffered during the holocaust. The germans marked them for extinction for the same reason they massacred the jews a for a German racial  half a Mil lion gypsies were murdered in the nazi Camps. But the two groups were treated so differently by the postwar German government. The mass murder on european jewry was fully recognized the Fate of the gypsies ignored. When the gypsies realized few would speak for them and their rights they decided to speak for themselves. Rose a Young Heidelberg merchant emerged As the eloquent spokesman for gypsies in Germany. Since the founding in the 1960s under roses leadership of the Central Council of sinti and Roma gypsies the organization has levelled heavy accusations of discrimination at local governments and at the Federal government in Bonn. The Council has found itself in a continual Clinch with several state governments about their current. Practice of monitoring Quot travel Erst a a euphemism for gypsies in 1960, Germany a travellers Bureau was abolished Rose said but the practice of discrimination continues. Gypsies in Bucharest where a the state still uses codes to keep sinti and Roma files separate As they did under Hitler. And there have been eases where even the personnel has been the same that worked under Hitler Quot Rose said. Part of the reason for the increased sensitivity to gypsies in Bonn is because of increased moral pressure from influential International personalities Rose has been Able to enlist for his struggle. Among them Simon Wiesenthal Simone veil former French president of the european parliament lie Wiesel the late Willi Brandt the world Council of churches sen. Edward Kennedy a mass and rep. Tom Lantos a Calico chairman of the congressional human rights of mucus. A senator Kennedy and congressman Lantos wrote a letter to Chancellor Helmut Kohl and the Heads of All the political parties asking them to look into the abuses we be documented and to Aid us in setting up a sinti and Roma cultural Institute and museum Quot Rose said. The Institute has become a reality. Last year the Bonn government purchased a Heidelberg Villa for the organization and has earmarked it million Marks nearly $7 million for installation of the archives and Library and promoting its work. De Reavis gypsies problems done to Stop with translation Crinan gypsies Call themselves sinti and Roma to avoid using the term Zig Cuner a Gypsy. Zig Cuner has been tainted after centuries of discrimination by the German people and finally by the holocaust that gypsies suffered under the third Reich. Prejudice and pogroms against gypsies Are a amp old As their presence in the country and that said Romani Rose founder of the Central Council for sinti and Roma in Germany goes Back 600 recorded years. Although 90 percent of the 75,000 German gypsies have settled Down and live in houses like the rest of the populace they remain shrouded in mystery and unwanted by their compatriots. As a German Magazine recently noted every bedouin in Egypt every tuareg in the Sahara and every native tribe in the brazilian rain Forest awakens More sympathy and attraction for europeans than their own nation of nomads right outside the door for whom they have made life a living hell throughout history. The great Ocean of ignorance about gypsies fuels a prejudice that has become deadly Over the centuries agree sinti and Roma were certainly on this territory Germany Long before those 600 years Quot Rose said. It Rose said the forefathers of the sinti arrived in the Region around 1400 from India via Turkey Greece and German speaking Europe. The English word a gypsies Quot derives from the belief that they originally came from Egypt. Gypsies who settled in the German speaking Region called themselves sinti. Those that settled in the slavic countries referred to themselves As Roma. Many Roma wandered into German speaking lands with the slavic wave of immigrants in the 1850s, etymology its claim Quot rom Quot is derived from a pro. Mani Quot which Means Quot human being in their Ian Guage non gypsies Are called a Aga de Quot which translates into Quot peasant simple Edector  a the 60,000 sinti and Roma now living in Germany Are German citizens but their discrimination has t ceased since hitlers program to annihilate us a Rose said. It has been estimated that 500,000 gypsies of continued on Page 7the Gypsy holocaust 1931 germans run a census of Quot non european races jews and gypsies within the boundaries of the Reich. 1 1933 the is demands sterilization of gypsies and Quot mixed  1939the Nurnberger race Laws initially passed to discriminate against jews Are applied to gypsies. 1938 in May Berlin police make the City a Gypsy free in anticipation of the olympics. In the mar Zahn Section of Berlin police erect the first Camp for people of a foreign races.�?�. 1938 from june 13 to 18, gypsies Are arrested by the hundreds and put into concentration Camps at Dachau Sachsenhause Buchenwald and later at Mau Hausen As a a preventive  in december Heinrich Himmler decrees a the Battle against the Gypsy plague and prepares for its  1939 in october Reinhard Heydrich rules that no Gypsy May move from his present place of rest do acc. 1939-40 gypsies jews a and other foreign peo pies Are removed from the regions annexed by the Reich and collected in the Eastern and Western regions of the Reich. A 1940 in april German police Deport 2,800 germans classified As gypsies to Poland. 1940-41 German austrian and polish gypsies Are forced into Poland a Lodz and Warsaw ghettos 1941 beginning in the summer special German teams murder jews and gypsies in the occupied regions of the soviet Union and Southeastern Europe. In the fall gypsies Are deported from Austria and held in the Lodz ghetto also in �?T41, Heydrich includes the gypsies in his proposal for the final solution of the jewish problem in the protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. 1942 More than 5,000 gypsies from the Lodz ghetto Are murdered by Means of the Mobile Gas trucks in  March the German commander in Serbia de. Clares the jewish and Gypsy problem As solved. 1943 All gypsies in Germany and the bordering countries Are arrested under the Auschwitz decree of dec. 16,1942. Of the 30,000 deported to Auschwitz 3,000 survive. In May Josef Mengele is appointed chief doctor in Auschwitz. He continues his experiments on twins with jewish and Gypsy children. 1944 on aug. 2, the nazis close Down the Gypsy Camp in Auschwitz on aug. 1, there Are 6,000 gypsies still alive. Half of them Are sent to other concentration Camps the other 3,000 murdered. Page 6 a sunday january 24, 1993