Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2013
Abstract
The article presents a commented memoir by a Czech Rom, a former prisoner of the Auschwitz concentration camp. The authors present the text a unique document on i) the efforts of some of the Romani holocaust survivors to preserve the memory of the tragic fate of the Roma from the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia during the period of "silencing"; ii) the (self-)positioning of Roms inside the new political regime and the evaluation of the changes their own social status as individuals inside the new society.
The commentary also covers the genesis of the document and the family history of its author as it has been reconstructed during their research.