Beyond the Roma Holocaust: from resistance to mobilization

Thomas M. Buchsbaum, Slawomir Kapralski (Hrsg.) (2017)

„The porrajmos cannot be altered retroactively, but probably can serve as a useful point of reference and departure in order to look to the future of Roma in our common Europe“ – Thomas M. Buchsbaum, 2017

This publication is based on the international symposium "Beyond the Roma Holocaust: From Resistance to Mobilisation", held in Cracow on 21-22 October 2016 to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the deportation of half of all Austrian Roma and Sinti to the Nazi ghetto of Łódź, and after the liquidation of the so-called Zigeunerlager Litzmannstadt the subsequent murder of some 4300 of them in so-called gas-vans at the Nazi extermination camp Kulmhof in Chełmno nad Nerem.
The authors of this publication reflect upon the nature and origins of the Roma genocide in the context of the contemporary situation of Roma communities in Europe. They discuss the fate of Roma during the Nazi terror in terms of their resistance and strategies of survival and thus go beyond the paradigm of victimisation. (Verweis: Universitas Warszawa).