If you want to take part at the conference, please REGISTER at helena.sadilkova@ff.cuni.cz by 31 AUGUST 2017.
20 SEPTEMBER 2017
13:30
Opening of the conference
Celia DONERT and Eve ROSENHAFT
13:45-15:45
Panel I: Families as Transmitters of Experience and Memory
Chair: Kateřina ČAPKOVÁ
Volha BARTASH (Hugo Valentin Centre, University of Uppsala): The Holocaust in Three Generations? Transmitting Memories and Communicating Trauma in Romani Families in Belarus and Lithuania
Hanna ABAKUNOVA (University of Sheffield): Memories of Persecution of Roma in Ukraine during the Second World War: Roma vs. non-Roma Perspectives.
Lada VIKOVÁ (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University): ‘Not being others’ and ‘Forgetting the Auschwitz Trauma’ as two chosen strategies in the postwar history of a Czech-Moravian Roma family.
Slawomir KAPRALSKI (Pedagogical University of Cracow): Roma Family as an Ambiguous Frame of Memory
15:45-16:15 coffee break
16:30 transfer to Václav Havel Library
17:30-18:00
Exhibition opening
Eve ROSENHAFT (Liverpool University), Jana MÜLLER (Alternative Jugendzentrum e.V. Dessau)
Exhibition title: “…don’t forget the photos, that is very important…” The Fate of Sinti and Roma Families during the Nazi-Period in Central Germany
18:00-19:00
Discussion with Members of German and Czech Holocaust Survivor Families
Chair: Jana HORVÁTOVÁ (Museum of Romani Culture)
21 SEPTEMBER 2017
9:00-10:45
Panel II: Memory, Family Histories, and the State
Chair: Yasar ABU GOSH (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University)
Ari JOSKOWICZ (Vanderbilt University): Judicial Testimony and Communal Memory: Pretrial Interviews with Romani Survivors in the Frankfurt Auschwitz Trials
Petre MATEI (Elie Wiesel National Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania, Bucharest): Roma in Romania and their Memories of the Holocaust – a Complicated Interplay between Survivors, Families, Activists and State
Eszter VARSA (Leibniz-Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, University in Regensburg): Child protection authorities’ perception of Romani and non-Romani families in early state socialist Hungary
10:45-11:15 coffee break
11:15-13:00
Panel III: The Destruction and Reconstruction of Community: Family Narratives
Chair: Ilsen ABOUT (EHESS, Paris)
Viorel ACHIM (Nicolae Iorga Institute of History, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest): Roma deported to Transnistria speaking about their suffering in several petitions from 1943-44
Grégoire COUSIN (University of Manchester): Creating a community, sharing a history: Family narratives of Bessarabian Roma in France and Romania.
Helena SADÍLKOVÁ / Milada ZÁVODSKÁ (Museum of Roma Culture, Brno): “After the liberation from the camp I returned to my country” (Leon Růžička). Two written testimonies (1958, 1980) by Romani Holocaust Survivors in Communist Czechoslovakia: Asserting a presence outside the private sphere.
13:00-14:00 Lunch break
14:00-15:45
Panel IV: Private Memories and Commemorative Cultures
Chair: Krista HEGBURG (USHMM, Washington)
Dušan SLAČKA (Museum of Roma Culture, Brno): Circumstances of Creation of Miroslav Bárta’s Short Documentary Motion Picture Nezapomeňte na tohle děvčátko (Don’t forget this little girl).
Jana HORVÁTOVÁ (Museum of Roma Culture, Brno): Genesis of Research, Documentation and Commemoration of the Roma Holocaust before and after the Establishment of the Museum of Romani Culture
Anne KLEIN (University of Cologne)/ Thorsten FEHLBERG (Bundesverband Information & Beratung für NS-Verfolgte e. V.): Who speaks? Tracing the transmittance of the Roma Genocide in private memory and commemorative culture
15:45-16:30 Coffee break
16:30-18:00
Roundtable discussion
Chair: Celia DONERT
Participants:
Tara ZAHRA (University of Chicago)
Angela KOCZE (CEU, Budapest)
Ari JOSKOWICZ (Vanderblit University)
Jan GRILL (Universidad del Valle, Cali)
Organizers:
Celia Donert (University of Liverpool)
Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool)
Helena Sadílková (Charles University, Prague)
Kateřina Čapková (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague)