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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Weronika Strzyżyńska in Warsaw

‘Meet us before you reject us’: Ukraine’s Roma refugees face closed doors in Poland

A child sits on an adult's shoulders against a backdrop of a wall painted with arrows
A hostel in Kraków has provided a places for 80 Romany refugees but they are all struggling to find accommodation to move on to. Photograph: Anna Liminowicz/The Guardian

Throughout the day, women with neatly tied buns slip out of a green door on to a narrow pavement just outside Kraków’s medieval market.

As young men in US army uniforms go by, trying to make sense of the maps on their phones, the women gather in a nook of a tall grey building to smoke hand-rolled cigarettes and chat.

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