International Protest Against the Anti-Semitic Websites Operated From Melbourne, Australia

A person named Hilda Schultheiss operates the defamatory anti-Semitic websites at http://romorg.com, http://www.romano-liloro.com and http://gypsy-news.com/.

Originally from Hungary, she emigrated to Australia in 1981. Official address: 40 Golden Avenue, Werribee, Melbourne, VIC 3030. Australia. Her e-mails are hschultheiss01@optusnet.com.au and hschultheiss@hotmail.com

 

Her websites are grossly anti-Semitic, and full of inaccuracies regarding the religious and ethnic affiliation of various individuals who have in one way or another been hostile to Romanies according to the web manager`s point of view.

 

Through the history Romaphobia and anti-Semitism have been a shared side-by-side presence for our entire existence in Europe. And it’s not an overstatement to say that only Jews can come close to understanding the emotional and psychological legacy Romanies inherit from the Holocaust. Thus, nothing would please our common enemies more than to drive a wedge between Romanies and Jews.

 

For a person such as Hilda Schultheiss, pretending to be a member of the “inside” and then broadcasting bigoted rhetoric is a well-known tactic employed by our detractors. These websites are the creation of a person whose views are not only in any way representative of Romani attitudes towards our Jewish friends, but harmful for Romani civil society as well.

We protest against the content of mentioned defamatory pseudo-Romani websites and demand from the relevant authorities their removal from the Internet!

 

1. Dr. Ian Hancock

Drector of the Program of Romani Studies and the Romani Archives and Documentation Center
Co-Founder
The Romani-Jewish Alliance, Inc.

xulaj@mail.utexas.edu

TX, USA

http://www.radoc.net

 

2. Els de Groen

Founder of The World Artists’ Initiative “Khetanes”

Ex-MEP (2004-2009)

els.degroen@inter.nl.net

Oss, Netherlands

www.elsdegroen.nl
http://artists-for-roma-net.ning.com

 

3. Yvonne Slee

yvonne_slee@hotmail.com

President of The Sinti Romani Community in Queensland, Australia.

Inc. Number: IA36508

http://www.sintiromanicommunity.org

 

4. Valery Novoselsky

Editor of Roma Virtual Network (RVN).

romale@zahav.net.il

Kiryat-Shemona, Israel.

http://www.valery-novoselsky.org/romavirtualnetwork.html

 

5. Ronald Lee
Honorary Chairman
Roma Community Centre

leerom@cogeco.ca
Toronto, Canada

http://www.romatoronto.org

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WITHDRAWN "IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED-Write a letter to Baylor president in protest!"

Withdrwan-IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED

PLEASE SEE NEW POST REGARDING THIS ISSUE. WE left this intact so you can see the original issue.

Professor Ian Hancock, received a letter (below) from a student named Joy Fattori-Hudson at Baylor University. She submitted a paper regarding the the fate of Romanies in the Holocaust. The professor refused to accept it because it dealt with Romanies. His name is Dr. Paul Sands, a theologian. I wrote to him and he replied

“I'm afraid that FERPA (the Family Education Rights & Privacy Act) does not allow me to speak with you about this matter. I applaud your work on behalf of the Romani people. May the truth be told and justice prevail -- at last. Cordially, Paul Sands.” Paul_Sands@baylor.edu

Please (PLEASE!) e-mail a protest to the president of Baylor, his address is david_garland@baylor.edu

We will also be pursuing this further.

ORIGINAL LETTER

Dear Professor Hancock,

I did not reply earlier because I ended up having a serious problem with my Holocaust Paper. My professor would not even grade it and told me it had to be rewritten. He did not like the subject matter.

I looked at the guidelines (one and half lines long) and it was okay . . . it was radical because it looked at how people hide memories that are not convenient such as the number of Romany people and others who also died in the Holocaust.

Anyway, I felt unable to argue . . . though I did try . . . I rewrote my paper leaving out almost all references to the Romany slaughter and got an A for it. I felt the original paper was the better paper even after re-reading it.

I remain unable to say anything until after I graduate, which I will on Friday.

There is something that still pervades about the Romany holocaust that people just simply do not want to know.

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