Used Sources
Here we present the printed sources in which the testimonies whose abstracts our site provides can be found. Users of our website who can read in Czech, Slovak, or Romani are strongly encouraged to read the original testimonies in these publications. Some of these publications are still available for purchase, in which case there is a link below the title to the online-store that offers the publication. The remaining titles can be borrowed from some libraries.
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Milena Hübschmannová (ed.): „Po židoch cigáni.“ II (After the Jews, the Gypsies ...
The book Po židoch cigáni (After the Jews, the Gypsies) is the most extensive and coherent collection of Romani memories of World War II to date. It was compiled in the 1970s under the direction of M…
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Dušan Holý, Ctibor Nečas: Žalující píseň (The Song of Lament)
The book Žalující píseň, written by Dušan Holý and Ctibor Nečas, deals with the fate of the Roma and Sinti in Nazi concentration camps. The book is divided into six chapters. The first chapter, titled…
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Ctibor Nečas (ed.): Aušvicate hi khér báro. Čeští vězňové cikánského tábora v Os...
The book consists of four main chapters. The first chapter, “Forced Concentration Camp in the Memories of Survivors,” contains two accounts by Helena Malíková and Antonín Daniel. These accounts are se…
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Životní příběhy ročníku 1924. Lidský osud v dějinách 20. století (Life Stories o...
Compiled by Dana Musilová and published in 1996, this book is the second volume of historical and biographical research from the Institute of Contemporary History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. It …
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Romano džaniben: Časopis romistických studií (Journal of Romani Studies)
Milena Hübschmannová established the journal in 1994. It focuses on the language, history, and culture of the Roma. In addition to scholarly articles, the journal publishes original works by Romani wr…
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Josef Serinek / Jan Tesař: Česká cikánská rapsodie (A Czech gypsy rhapsody)
A Czech Gypsy Rhapsody is an extensive annotated edition based on the memoirs of Josef Serinek, a famous Romani partisan. His narrative was collected in 1963 – 1964 by the historian Jan Tesař and prepar…
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Z Brna do Auschwitz-Birkenau. První transport moravských Romů do koncentračního ...
The publication consists of four parts. First are the introductory words of Ilona Lázníčková, the former director of the Museum of Romani Culture, which published the book. Next is a section titled “T…
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Memoáry romských žen (Memoirs of Romani women)
The publication Memoirs of Romani Women presents two autobiographical stories of Romani women who were born during the 1920s and 1930s. One side of the book, entitled Elina — The Saga of the Holomek F…
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Jana Horváthová et al. (eds), ...to jsou těžké vzpomínky. Vzpomínky Romů a Sintů...
You can buy the book here. This extensive publication is primarily based on reminiscences of Roma and Sinti survivors about World War II in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It also contains bi…
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Martin Fotta, Ingrid Vagačová (eds): Rómovia a druhá svetová vojna. Čítanka (The...
The fate of the Roma in Slovakia during World War II is presented in a mosaic of specialist texts and testimonies of Romani Holocaust survivors. The part of the book entitled “At the Beginning” contai…
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Milena Hübschmannová (ed.): „Po židoch cigáni.“ I: Svědectví Romů ze Slovenska 1...
You can buy the book here. This book – the first volume of a collection of Slovak Roma memories of World War II – has as its title the slogan of the Hlinka Guards at that time, “Po židoch cigáni”( “A…
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Ctibor Nečas (ed.): Nemůžeme zapomenout – Našťi bisteras: nucená táborová koncen...
The main part of the book consists of recollections of wartime persecution related by 31 Roma from the Czech lands. The book also contains a summary of the laws, regulations and legislative amendments…
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Jana Kramářová et al. (eds): (Ne)bolí. Vzpomínky Romů na válku a život po válce ...
The book is a collection of testimonies from Romani people whose narratives are divided into the period before the war, during the war, and the years after the war. It has two introductions: first com…