Ján Cibuľa
created: 16. 01. 2023 13:50 modified: 16. 01. 2023 13:51
The photos from the Jekhetane-Spolu Association, which capture Ján Cibuľa, one of the leading Romani figures, during the 5th Congress of the International Roma Union (IRU), which took place on July 24-28, 2000 in Prague.
The photo was published in the Romano nevo ľil (the Romani newspaper) no. 448-454/2000 on p. 14.
Ján Cibuľa, MD. (* January 7, 1932, Klenovec – † August 18, 2013, Bern) was a Slovak doctor of Romani origin. Co-founder of the Gypsies-Roma Union in Slovakia, participant of the first meeting of the International Romani Union in Orpington. He led a twelve-member delegation of Western and Eastern Roma to the UN headquarters in New York and was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.
He graduated from the gymnasium in Rimavská Sobota. His father was a violinist. In 1957, he became the first Roma in what was then Czechoslovakia to graduate from the Faculty of Medicine of the Comenius University in Bratislava. In 1968, he became a co-founder of the Gypsies-Roma Union.
He was the first President of the IRU in 1971.
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