Testimonies of Roma and Sinti

  Authors

Čapková, Kateřina ; Berkyová, Renata ; Patočková, Radka ; Zdařilová, Eva and Jandák, Marek

  Item identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12800/1-5685

 Referenced by

https://www.romatestimonies.com
https://www.svedectviromu.cz/

 Date issued

2024-10-01

 Type

OBRAZ, TEXT

 Size

50 mb

 Language(s)

Czech , English

 Description

The key idea of our project is to convey to the widest possible readership detailed abstracts of the testimonies of Roma and Sinti and thus their personal and irreplaceable experience of the Second World War. We hope that the Testimonies of Roma and Sinti project will contribute to greater awareness of their genocide and will be an irreplaceable source of information for researchers, relatives of the victims, or anyone else interested in this important topic. First of all, we defined the project geographically: we focused on the testimonies of Roma and Sinti from the Bohemian lands (today's Czech Republic) and Slovakia. The second definition is that we are only processing printed testimonies into the database. A valuable, and extremely demanding, part of the database is the detailed abstracts of these testimonies prepared by Romani studies experts in cooperation with historians and linguistic stylists. These abstracts are important not only for Czech and Slovak readers, as many publications with testimonies are not easily accessible, but especially for users from abroad - whether researchers, members of Romani communities or any other interested parties - as the vast majority of the hundreds of published testimonies exist only in Czech, Slovak or Romani, and are thus inaccessible to most people from abroad. Within the database, the testimonies are analyzed according to several criteria, which allow detailed searches and their classification, for example, according to the type of war experience (internment, participation in armed struggle, hiding, etc.). In the analysis, we then focused mainly on geographical data. Therefore, projections of collected data on maps are an integral part of the database, which allow us to show the war trajectory of individuals and groups, to show, for example, the locations of mass murders or guerrilla fighting, or to search for testimonies related to a place.

 Publisher

Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences

 Acknowledgement

Czech Science Foundation

Project code: 19-26638X

Project name: Genocide, Postwar Migration, and Social Mobility: Entangled Experiences of Roma and Jews, Excellence Project (EXPRO)

 

The Czech Academy of Sciences

Project code: https://identity.mua.cas.cz/cs/english

Project name: Identities in the World of Wars and Crises

 

Bader Philanthropies

Project code: 21551, 22726, 24247, 24242, 25934

Project name: Database of Romani Testimonies Related to the Second World War (2019-2024)

 Subject(s)

Roma Sinti testimonies Holocaust database Second World War Czechoslovakia Slovakia Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia genocide

 Collection(s)

LINDAT / CLARIAH-CZ DH Data

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