Interviews housed in the archives of the Holocaust Museum in Washington D.C., USA. Czech Roma Documentation Project

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A total of 22 inter­views with Czech and Mora­vian Roma and Sin­ti are hPro­ject, sup­port­ed by a grant from Jeff and Toby Herr. The project leader was Nathan Beyrak.oused in the Oral His­to­ry Depart­ment of the Unit­ed States Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um in Wash­ing­ton, D.C., most of which are also avail­able online. The inter­views, focus­ing on the wartime peri­od of per­se­cu­tion and impris­on­ment in con­cen­tra­tion camps, were record­ed in the late 1990s as part of the Czech Roma Doc­u­men­ta­tion

The inter­views were record­ed in Czech on video­tapes and sub­se­quent­ly dig­i­tized. In addi­tion to the video inter­view, a tran­script of the record­ing (in Czech) and a trans­la­tion of the tran­script (in Eng­lish) are also avail­able.

Inter­views avail­able online: Antonín Vin­ter, Emi­lie Danielová, Jan Holomek, Marie Kryšto­fová, Ladislav Stockinger, Karel Vrba, Marie Sendreová, Geisa Olah, Antonie Kroková, Fran­tišek Daniel, Sebas­t­ian Daniel, Bože­na Růžičková, Marie Ondrášová, Antonín Hlaváček, Marké­ta Holomková, Marie Procházková, Rudolf Daniel, Antonín Daniel. Inter­views acces­si­ble in the muse­um archive: Irma Val­dová, Alžbě­ta Lagronová, Anna Růžičková, Jana Marhoulová.

There are in the muse­um’s archive also more than twen­ty oth­er inter­views with Roma sur­vivors from Slo­va­kia. These inter­views are list­ed only under the first name of the inter­vie­wees.

Archive of inter­views: https://​col​lec​tions​.ush​mm​.org/

Exter­nal link for the video

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