This song speaks to Fabrizio De Andrè Roma, in particular Khorakhanè (literally: "Lovers of the Koran"), a tribe of Muslim-Serb and Roma -Montenegrin.
poetic view of De Andrè recounts with sensitivity and deep empathy the recent and distant experiences of these people, who made their nomadic way of being. During
the concert at the Teatro Valli di Reggio Emilia, 6 December 1997, De Andrè like this to the public his song:
'Gypsies travel the world for more than two thousand years, if we believe Herodotus. These Roma, this is a free people affected by dromomania, that constant desire to move. I do not think they ever hurt anyone, despite the strange rumors, it is true that steal - on the other hand can not do without the primary impulse in the DNA of every human being: that the looting, which we heard in those contracting - but I never heard that they have stolen through bank. I also never seen a woman beat a Roma sidewalk. Run without lead weapons, so if you were to give a Nobel peace to a people, the Roma would be more appropriate. "
In the text of the song also refers to the extermination of Gypsies in concentration camps (" the children dropped from the calendar Yugoslavia Poland Hungary
all soldiers took and threw away all ")
often forget that the death camps have swallowed their smelly belly not only millions of Jews but also thousands of Gypsies.
common with Jews from the same fate of death were at least half a million Gypsies who perished in Nazi death camps. But it is as if the wind had lost his memory.
Yet the suffering endured by Roma and Sinti have been terrible. They were persecuted, sterilized in bulk, used as guinea pigs for experiments, and eventually destined for the gas chambers and the crematoria. More than twenty thousand were killed in only Zigeunerlager, the field reserved for them at Auschwitz-Birkenau, between February 1943 and August 1944. Despite this, no one Gypsy was called to testify in the trials of Nazi leaders, even in Nurnberg.
Andre's song, which ends with the verses in Giogio Bezzecchi of Romanes (Romani Harvati Croatian ie), tells a story of people who always comes to terms with being "different" than sedentary people, those occupy a territory and make the equation "a people-an area" the pivot of their identity. During their long nomadic history has known these people most often distrust and hatred, but managing to maintain a deep connection with life (Mirka and then to St. George in May the flames of the flowers to drink and a laugh to tears of relief invade the eyes and the eyes fall "). But that is largely a history of Rom unknown, because the Roma do not use store the memory in written form ("knowing how to read the book in the world with changing words and no writing") is an exception
Tzigari story, the story of a Italian Roma that becomes a fascist, Nazi escapes deportation and fighting in the Resistance. It looks like the incredible story of a film, and instead is the true story of Joseph Levakovich, Tzigari told a story proposal in a beautiful documentary film from History Channel entitled "TZIGARI, A HISTORY ROM."
The documentary, directed by Paul Santoni, tells the amazing life of Levakovich, Roma Italian who lived in the two world wars, revealing unpublished pages of the fascist and racist persecution of the Roma participation in the war of resistance. Little is known about the Porraimos, literally "consumed" in their language, extermination, and the fate of thousands of Roma and Sinti Italians who were interned in camps set up by the fascist regime.
But in Roma culture, as we said, there is a written statement, indeed, write the suffering he is considered an almost sacrilegious act. Tzigari exception, and in the 70s decided to tell Gaje, non-Gypsies, what had happened, so that humanity will not forget.
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