Eva Duravec (10)

The Ethnographic Museum is around the corner. Anna gave me a tip. The entrance fee is only 80 crowns. There is a small exhibition ‘Phundrado drom / The Open Road’, curated by Petra Hanáková and Emília Rigová, working with the collection of the Museum of Roma Culture in Brno. A miniature painting called ‘Pobedim pogrom’ created in 2000 by Ján Berky (SK) is exhibited there. It is about an event in 1928 when peasants attacked the Roma in a settlement near the village of Pobedim in the western part of today´s Slovakia. Out of twenty victims, six were killed, including a six-year-old child. This horror is generally unknown because it was hushed up, the culprits unpunished: the peasants covered for each other, along with the parish priest and the gendarmes.

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