Filmed Interviews – Paul Polansky

Author. Historian. Human Rights Activist

Paul Polansky

I am an American human rights activist, journalist, historian, poet and cultural anthropologist, working to bring to public attention to the continuing genocide faced by the Roma. Author of 40+ books, award-winning documentaries and hundreds of articles and reports.

Here is a selection of Paul Polansky’s filmed interviews. More interviews can be found on the Internet and YouTube.

Human Rights sub-committee Irish parliament (part 1) 2009

Human Rights sub-committee Irish parliament (part 2) 2009

Human Rights sub-committee Irish parliament (part 3) 2009

Toxicity shock at UN camps 2009

BBC TV report on UN Roma camp on toxic wasteland in Kosovo 2009

Roma gypsy children of Kosovo hold a deadly world record 2010

Anti German Gypsy deportation poem read by Paul Polansky 2010

Pig farm over Roma Holocaust camp at Lety, Czech Republic 2011

My life with the Gypsies (English with Italian subtitles) 2012

Around the Balkans in 20 Days (Part 4/5), 2012

Burning of Roma camp in Milano (English with Italian subtitles) 2012

Poetry reading about Homeless in America 2013

Boxing poems in Katowice, Poland 2014

Interview on Roma/Gypsies, Katowice, Poland 2014

Press conference on presentation of Lety Death Camp book 2014

2004 Recipient of Weimar Human Rights Award for which he was unanimously selected following his nomination by Nobel Laureate for Literature Günter Grass.
2005 Finalist for the prestigious Canadian John Humphrey Freedom Award.
2013 Nominated for a CNN Hero Award.
2014 Recipient of the Italian Flussidiversi Poetry Festival Award of Caorle, Venice, resulting in one of his poems being permanently inscribed onto the city's seawall in honor of his human rights work.
2015 Recipient of both the Alfonso Gatto National Italian Poetry Award, (Salerno, Italy); and The Italian National Human Rights Award by the Fondazione Romani Italia for his work with Roma in Italy and Kosovo.