Your article on Central Europe’s Roma (or Gypsies) focuses on the Czech Republic, where the victims of growing racism are starting to fight back (“Cold Comforts,” September 24, 2011). The conflict is also growing in many neighboring countries, such as Slovakia, Hungary, and Romania. Of course, recent deportations of the Roma from France and Italy show that the issue is of pan-European nature. In some countries in Central and Eastern Europe the idea of building walled ghettoes for the “unadaptables” is becoming increasingly popular. Once again, it comes straight from Israel, where the Palestinians are the victims of segregation. As you report, a Slovak far-right politician, Jan Slota, has gone a step farther by proposing that the Roma should have their own state. All this smacks of Nazi Germany, as you point out. During World War II the Roma perished together with the Jews, but their plight attracted much less attention. The task of adapting the unadaptables must be undertaken by the European Union, which ought to dedicate real effort and considerable resources to stem the conflict before it grows too bitter to cure. Any one single country in the Union cannot possibly address the problem alone.