Down on Zawiszy Street

The on-again, off-again relations between the majority and the Roma in one Polish town mirror the situation across Central Europe.

Poland’s Romani minority is one of the smallest
in Central Europe, estimated to number 20,000, but it, too, endures
widespread discrimination and neglect. The Roma of Nowy Sacz, and
generally in the southern Polish region of Malopolska, belong to
the so-called Carpathian Roma who abandoned the nomadic lifestyle
centuries ago. They are Poland’s poorest ethnic minority. Three
other Roma groups are scattered elsewhere in the country, their
nomadism becoming gradually a memory from the past.

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