Ctibor Nečas (ed.): Aušvicate hi khér báro. Čeští vězňové cikánského tábora v Osvětimi II-Brzezince (Aušvicate hi khér báro. Czech Prisoners of the Gypsy Camp in Auschwitz II-Birkenau)

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 sep­a­rat­ed by a record­ing of the song ​“Aušvi­cate hi khér báro,” per­formed by Malíková. Next is a chap­ter titled ​“Cal­en­dar of Events,” which chrono­log­i­cal­ly sum­ma­rizes the his­tor­i­cal events relat­ing to the Auschwitz II-Birke­nau camp for Roma and Sin­ti from 14 July 1927, to 25 Sep­tem­ber 1944. The third sec­tion con­sists of appen­dices and includes tran­scripts of two anti-Roma reg­u­la­tions from the Pro­tec­torate and the Ger­man Reich. The final sec­tion com­pris­es about two-thirds of the book and con­sists of lists of pris­on­ers from the Bohemi­an lands (ter­ri­to­ry of today’s Czech Repub­lic) who were reg­is­tered in the camp for Roma and Sin­ti in Auschwitz II-Birke­nau. This sec­tion is pre­ced­ed by a note on how the camp office book was dis­cov­ered, how it was kept, and how the data can be inter­pret­ed. In addi­tion to the author’s acknowl­edg­ments, the book includes a fore­word by Karel Holomek, who was then a mem­ber of the Czech Nation­al Coun­cil, as well as a bibliography.

Hele­na Malíková’s mem­oir was record­ed by Cti­bor Nečas dur­ing a vis­it in 1988. Antonín Daniel’s mem­oir was record­ed in two parts and, after autho­riza­tion, sup­ple­ment­ed with a pas­sage that Daniel wrote later.