Used Sources

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… 

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… 

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… 

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 … 

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… 

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… 

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…

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… 

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… 

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… 

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…

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… 

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…