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Little boy with a heavy boom-box(radio) in Bystrany.

Young couple from Velka Lomnica.

Family of Mr. Laci from Torysa.

Kid from Uloza.

Julo from Velka Lomnica is playing his violin.

Man shaving in Velka Lomnica.

A girl from Podsadek.

Ghetto in Velka Lomnica. Most of the Gypsies in Slovakia still live in ghettos, colonies, or settlements outside of regular villages.

A wake for four year old Lucka Horvathova from Bystrany. When someone from a Gypsy community dies, the body stays at home for three nights. During that time family members and friends come to say their last good bye.

Czecho-Slovakia is a country with a population of 15 million. Most of the people are Czechs and Slovaks, but other minorities live there too. Almost a half a million Gypsies live in a Czecho-Slovakia, most of them in a region of Eastern Slovakia. …