Anti-traveller Riots in Sweden
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 October 2018
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
In 1948 racist violence broke out against Romany-speaking traveller people in Sweden. The riots in the town of Jönköping lasted for several days. Birgitta Hellström and Barbro Gustafsson are sisters from the traveller community and they have been speaking to Tim Mansel about the events of that time.
(Photo: Birgitta Hellström (L) and Barbro Gustafsson (R). Credit: Tim Mansel)
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| 0:35.4 | Sounds. |
| 0:36.4 | Just before this BBC podcast gets underway, here's something you may not know. |
| 0:40.9 | My name's Linda Davies and I commissioned |
| 0:43.0 | podcast for BBC Sounds. |
| 0:45.0 | As you'd expect, at the BBC we make podcasts of the very highest quality, |
| 0:49.0 | featuring the most knowledgeable experts and genuinely engaging voices. |
| 0:54.4 | What you may not know is that the BBC makes podcasts about all kinds of things like pop stars, |
| 1:00.9 | poltergeist, cricket and conspiracy theories, and that's just a few examples. |
| 1:06.4 | If you'd like to discover something a little bit unexpected, find your next podcast over at BBC |
| 1:11.6 | Sounds. You're listening to the Witness History Podcast from the BBC World Service with me, Tim Mansell. |
| 1:18.0 | Today we're going back to a notorious event in Sweden in the summer of 1948, several days of racist violence |
| 1:27.6 | that terrorised the Romani-speaking traveler community in the town of Yunschipping. |
| 1:33.0 | I was nine years old in 1948. |
| 1:37.0 | I was nine years old in 1948. |
| 1:40.0 | It was the summer holidays and it was going to be wonderful. I would be going out with |
| 1:44.2 | mom and dad in the caravan but that's not how it turned out. It was a difficult time |
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