The Legacies of the Romani Genocide in Europe since 1945

This book explores the legacies of the genocide of Roma in Europe after the end of the Second World War. Hundreds of thousands of people labelled as 'Gypsies' were persecuted or killed in Nazi Germany and across occupied Europe between 1933 and 1945.

Autorentext

Celia Donert is Associate Professor in Central European History at the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

Eve Rosenhaft is Professor of German Historical Studies at the University of Liverpool, United Kingdom.

Inhalt

List of Figures, Acknowledgements, Introduction Part I: The Forgotten Genocide? Producing, Circulating, and Silencing Knowledge about the Genocide of Roma Mass Arrests and Persecution of "Nomads" in France, 1944-46: Post-Liberation Purges or Evidence of "Anti-Gypsyism"? Lise Foisneau The Return of Roma Deportees from Transnistria in Post-War Romania Viorel Achim "The tragedy of the guilty victims"? The memory of the Roma genocide in the post-war Soviet Union. Mikhail Tyaglyy Between Memory and Amnesia: Silencing the Genocide of the Roma in Local Memory in the Czech Lands. Pavel Baloun Part II: Families as Conduits of Experience and Memory Resistance or Survival? Roma in the Soviet partisan units: Memories and archival evidence. Volha Bartash Under an Assumed Name. A Croatian Roma Family Network between Fascism and the Post-War Order in Italy. Paola Trevisan "Not being others" and "Forgetting the Auschwitz trauma": Two strategies in the post-war history of a Czech-Moravian Romani family. Lada Viková Holocaust Both as a Family Trauma and an Impulse for the Institutionalization of Research, Documentation and Remembrance. Jana Horváthová Part III: Testimony and Identity Asserting a Presence in the Public Sphere: Autobiographies by two Romani Holocaust Survivors in Communist Czechoslovakia. Helena Sadílková and Milada Závodská Roma in 1980s Communist Romania and the Roma Discourse on the Holocaust between Compensation and Identity. Petre Matei Traces of Testimonies. Unfinished narratives and fragmented memories of the genocide of the Roma and Sinti. Ilsen About Part IV: Memory and Commemoration in Post-Communist Europe "Difficult to Adapt People" Roma and "Our" Victims in Post-Communist Memorial Museums. Ljiljana Radoni The consequences of the genocide for Roma memories and identities. Sawomir Kapralski