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((Short description|Subgroup of the Romani people))
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((Infobox ethnic group
| group            = Polska Roma
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| langs            = [[Baltic Romani]], [[Carpathian Romani]]
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| related          = [[Romani people in Belarus|Belaruska Roma]], [[Ruska Roma]]
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((Romani people))
'''Polska Roma''' are the largest and one of the oldest [[ethnolinguistic]] subgroups of [[Romani people]] living in Poland. Some Polska Roma also live in [[North America]], [[Switzerland]], [[Sweden]], [[Great Britain]] and countries of the [[European Union]]. The term "Polska Roma" is both an [[ethnonym]] of the group and a term used in the academic literature. As such it is distinct from the terms "Polish Roma" or "Roma in Poland" which better denote [[Romani people in Poland|the broader Roma population in Poland]]. Polish ethnographer [[Jerzy Ficowski]], writing in the 1950s and 1960s used the term "Polish Lowlander Gypsies" (Polish: ''Polscy Cyganie Nizinni'') to refer to the same group, though this terminology is no longer in widespread use.

==Culture==
Polska Roma were nomadic until the twentieth century. They have not assimilated into broader Polish society or the non-Romani cultures of other countries where they live. They are in fact one of the most traditional Romani groups. One exception to this is that the most common [[surnames]] among Polska Roma are characteristically Polish (for example ''Kwiatkowski'' or ''Majewski''), or occasionally Polonized-German (for example ''Wajs'' or ''Szwarc''). Polska Roma generally have had a very strict interpretation of [[Romanipen]] cultural laws and practices. Some cultural differences arose however within the community during and after World War II because those of the Polska Roma who spent the war in areas controlled by the Soviet Union were able to hold on to [[Orthodoxy|orthodox]] practice, while those under German occupation and threatened by [[genocide]] had to compromise the strictness of their traditions in order to survive.

The Polska Roma are the descendants of the Sasytka Roma (German Roma, they are not Sinti). The Sasytka Roma are also called Pluniaki. The Sasytka Roma and Polska Roma form a large group, the group calls itself Polska Roma. The Polska Roma Kings (Siero Rom) is from the Sasytka Roma group.

They are closely related to [[Ruska Roma|Xaladitka Roma]], or "Ruska Roma"  they are the descendants of the Sasytka Roma and Polska Roma. who emigrated to the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]] together with the Polska Roma. Because the Xaladitka settled in western [[Russia]] in the 17th century, they became more affected by [[Ruthenians|Ruthenian]], rather than Polish, culture.<ref name="bartosz" />

==History==
===Origins===
Polska Roma as a distinct ethnolinguistic group formed during the 16th century in western Poland from Roma refugees who had migrated to the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth in order to escape anti-Romani persecution in the [[Holy Roman Empire]]. The migration was a result of a wave of [[pogroms]], persecutions and anti-Romani laws in German territories and this had a profound effect on Polska Roma's culture and language. Compared to other Roma groups, such as the [[Bergitka Roma]] (''Polish Carpathian Gypsies'' or ''Polish Highlander Gypsies'' in Ficowski's terminology) who had actually arrived in Poland earlier in the 15th century, the communities of Polska Roma are more closed and suspicious of outsiders ([[Gadjo (non-Romani)|Gadjo]]), less "assimilated", and more tied to traditional Roma culture. Their version of the Roma dialect has also incorporated many German words and idioms.<ref name=bartosz>Adam Bartosz, "Nie boj sie cygana/Na dara rromesoar", Pograniczne, Sejny, 1994, pg. 71</ref>

===In the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth===
Between the 16th and 18th centuries, the [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], like other European states, passed anti-Roma legislation. However, unlike in most European countries, these laws were rarely enforced in large measure because the Roma found powerful protectors among the [[Szlachta]] (Polish nobility) and benign neglect. Polish nobles, magnates and landowners, placed a high value on the traditional [[crafts]] of the Roma, such as [[metallurgy]], [[Husbandry|farming]], and [[Wheelwright|wheelwrighting]], as well musical skills (which became a standard staple of important occasions), the Polska Roma were usually exempted from the [[feudal]] restrictions that tied Polish peasants to the land. They were free to continue the nomadic lifestyle during most of the year, as long as they arrived in the "home town" on pre-specified market days. In that respect, the Polska Roma occupied social strata above that of the Polish peasants and other Roma populations, such as the Carpathian Roma (whose mobility was restricted).

In many large magnate [[latifundia]], the communities of Polska Roma were also given the right to have a "[[King of the Gypsies|king]]," chosen to represent them in legal disputes with outsiders. However, over time, the office became a source of corruption. In the 18th and 19th centuries, the persons were often chosen from outside their group and tended to pursue personal rather than community interests.

Additional anti-Roma laws were passed in Poland and Lithuania when [[Augustus the Strong]], the [[Elector of Saxony]], was elected king of Poland in 1697. [[Saxony]], like most German states of the time had very strong anti-Roma legislation (Roma men were to be killed on sight, often with a bounty paid for their ears, while Roma women and children were disfigured, branded and banished) and upon Augustus' inauguration some of these laws were transferred to the Commonwealth. However, a distinction was made between the laws applicable in Augustus' home state of Saxony and the Commonwealth proper, where the most severe measures were mitigated into monetary fines or simply benign neglect of local authorities.<ref name=bartosz/>

Shortly before the [[Partitions of Poland]], Polska Roma, like other non-[[Szlachta]] classes, were granted full citizenship by the [[Constitution of 3rd May]]. However, these privileges were lost with the partitions and the Polska Roma were forced back into servile status by the foreign powers (Austria, Prussia, Russia).

===During the Polish partitions===
After Poland's partitions, the persecution of Polska Roma became more severe, particularly in the [[Russian partition]]. As a result, the group's population's size declined, at one point falling to as low as 1000 persons within [[Congress Poland]]. Finally, the 19th century saw an influx of other Romani into the territories of the former [[Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth]], particularly the [[Kalderash]] and [[Lovari]]. These groups competed economically against the Polska Roma within their traditional crafts and, in many places, successfully displaced them in terms of employment.

===Interwar Poland===
After [[Second Polish Republic|Poland regained its independence]], Polish authorities tended to recognize the [[Kalderash]] as the overall representatives of the Roma population in the country. Consequently, the "gypsy kings" during this period were chosen from among the Kalderash, and policy generally reflected this group's interests, often at the expense of the Polska Roma. Like most other Romani sub-groups within Poland who were not Kalderash, the latter did not recognize the authority of these representatives and did their best to ignore or circumvent it.

<gallery>
File:Kratky, Frantisek - Halic, romove (ca 1895).jpg|Roma in [[Galicia (Eastern Europe)|Galicia]], 1895
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 183-2004-0203-503, Warschau, Krönung eines "Zigeunerkönigs".jpg|Crowning of the "Gypsy King" in [[Warsaw]], 1937
File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_183-2004-0203-500,_Warschau,_Krönung_eines_"Zigeunerkönigs".jpg|Crowning of the "Gypsy King" in [[Warsaw]], 1937
File:Bundesarchiv Bild 146-2004-0026, bei Lemberg, Wagen von Zigeunern.jpg|Roma convoy leaving Lemberg ([[Lviv]]), 1941
</gallery>

===Porajmos===
[[File:Lublin Ghetto Roma women.jpg|thumb|Roma women in the [[Lublin]] ghetto, 1940]]
((main|Porajmos))

After the [[Invasion of Poland|German invasion and occupation of Poland]] the Nazis carried out a planned genocide of the Roma population as part of the [[final solution]]. Polska Roma, along with other Romani groups in Poland were very much affected. Generally, while other Roma were usually placed in [[ghettos]] and then sent to [[Nazi concentration camps]], the German [[SS]] usually murdered Polska Roma (as well as the Bergitka Roma) in mass executions in forests and secluded places (for example in the [[Szczurowa massacre]]).

===After World War II===
[[File:Cyganki na odpuście - Bieniszew - 000117n.jpg|thumb|Roma girls near Konin, 1970]]
While prior to World War II a small portion of Polska Roma had become sedentary, most continued a traditional nomadic way of life. Unlike the Lovarii and Kalderash, who often engaged in cross-national Europe-wide travels, Polska Roma tended to stay within the borders of interwar Poland or neighboring countries.

After the war, however, the communist government of People's Poland instituted a policy aimed at the "settling" of the Roma population which had survived the Holocaust. Initially, this took the form of financial incentives - including free housing and "settlement funds" - but because the policy did not achieve the goals the communist authorities hoped for, by the late 1950s the policy evolved into one of forced settlement and outright prohibitions against the "nomadic" lifestyle. All Polska Roma had to register, "vagrancy" was outlawed, and Roma's parents were often jailed if their children failed to attend the same school throughout the year (which was impossible in the context of a nomadic lifestyle). This forced policy resulted in about 80% of the previously nomadic Roma becoming settled, while a portion of the remainder went underground. Still, others emigrated abroad.

The Polska Roma poet [[Papusza]] (Bronisława Wajs) became nationally renowned during this period, as did her nephew, [[Edward Dębicki]].

==Polska Roma today==
[[File:Terno Gorzow 07.jpg|thumb|right|[[Edward Dębicki]] with the Roma musical group ''Terno'' in [[Gorzów Wielkopolski]] in 2007.]]
Today the Polska Roma live throughout Poland except southern Poland. In southern Poland, the Carpathian Roma (also called Bergitka Roma) in the area around [[Nowy Sącz]], in [[Podhale]] and [[Spisz]].<ref name=bartosz/>

In June 1991 the [[Mława riot]] occurred, which was a series of violent incidents against Polska Roma that broke out after one Polish man was killed and another Polish man was permanently harmed when a Romani teenager drove into three ethnic Poles in a crosswalk, killing one, then fled the scene of the accident.<ref name="Emigh">((cite book|author1=Rebecca Jean Emigh|first2=Iván|last2=Szelényi|author-link2=Iván Szelényi|title=Poverty, Ethnicity, and Gender in Eastern Europe During the Market Transition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O_tXHTK2kQUC&pg=PA101|access-date= 13 September 2019|year=2001|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-275-96881-6|pages=101–102))</ref> After the accident a rioting mob attacked wealthy Romani settlements in the Polish town of [[Mława]]. Both the Mława police chief<ref name="ecorage" /> and University of Warsaw sociology researchers<ref name="Emigh" /> said that the pogrom was primarily due to class envy (some Romani have grown wealthy in the gold and automobile trades). At the time, the mayor of the town, as well as the Romani involved and other residents, said the incident was not racially motivated.<ref name="ecorage">((cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/07/25/world/poles-vent-their-economic-rage-on-gypsies.html?src=pm|title=Poles Vent Their Economic Rage on Gypsies|date=July 25, 1991|work=The New York Times|access-date= 13 September 2019))</ref>

During the coverage of the riot, a change in [[ethnic stereotype]]s about Roma in Poland was mentioned: A Roma is no longer poor, dirty, or cheerful. They also do not beg or pretend to be lowly. Nowadays a Roma drives a high-status car, lives in a fancy mansion, flaunts his wealth, brags that the local authorities and the police are on his pay and thus he is not afraid of anybody. At the same time he is, as before, a swindler, a thief, a hustler, a dodger of military service and a holder of a legal, decent job.<ref>Anna Giza-Poleszczuk, Jan Poleszczuk, Raport "Cyganie i Polacy w Mławie - konflikt etniczny czy społeczny?" (Report "Romani and Poles in Mława - Ethnic or Social Conflict?") commissioned by [[Centre for Public Opinion Research]], Warsaw, December 1992, pp. 16- 23, Sections III and IV "Cyganie w PRL-u stosunki z polską większością w Mławie" and "Lata osiemdziesiąte i dziewięćdziesiąte".</ref> Negative "meta-stereotypes" – or the Romas' own perceptions regarding the stereotypes that members of the dominant groups hold about their own group – were described by the Polish Roma Society in an attempt to intensify the dialogue about exclusionism.<ref>((cite web |first1=Marian Grzegorz |last1=Gerlich |first2=Roman |last2=Kwiatkowski |title=Romowie. Rozprawa o poczuciu wykluczenia |publisher=Stowarzyszenie Romów w Polsce |url=http://www.stowarzyszenie.romowie.net/Romowie.-Rozprawa-o-poczuciu-wykluczenia--Marian-Grzegorz-Gerlich,-Roman-Kwiatkowski-144.html |quote=Okazuje się, że ów metastereotyp – rodzaj wyobrażenia Romów o tym, jak są postrzegani przez "obcych" – jest wizerunkiem nasyconym prawie wyłącznie cechami negatywnymi.|language=Polish))</ref>

==See also==
*[[Racism in Poland#Roma|Racism in Poland – Roma]]

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