Departure of Lovára from Czech lands to Slovakia in 1939 and their avoidance of war genocide

Abstrakt

The presentation focuses on the departure of the Lovára from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia to Slovakia upon Czechoslovakia's disintegration in 1939. Based on a combination of archival research and oral history methods, it shows the Lovára's departure in the context of the contemporaneous measures and efforts of the state administration to limit the mobility of "nomadic Gypsies" in the Czech lands, continuous throughout the pre-war period, and stoke anti-Gypsy sentiments, politically supported and growing in the society of the time.

This description is enriched by the perspectives of participants-narrations of Roms who were perceived as "nomads" and witnessed these events.

Klíčová slova

• Lovára
• itinerancy
• interwar period
• Czechoslovakia’s disintegration in 1939
• anti-Gypsy measures
• right of domicile.