1st Edition
Testimony, Agency, Memory and the Roma Genocide
Introduction
Barbara Warnock and Clara Dijkstra
1. ‘Experiences Which Are Difficult to Communicate.’ The History of the Ištvan Family in the Czech Lands and Postwar Testimonies by Jan Ištvan, a Romani Holocaust Survivor
Helena Sadílková and Lada Viková
2. Return Unwanted: Family Narratives, Museum Practice, and the Struggle for Roma and Sinti Memory
Anna Míšková
3. Roma Orphans in the Southeastern Region of German-Occupied Poland during the Second World War
Justyna Matkowska
4. Petitioning for Freedom?: French ‘Nomades’ Letters from the Internment Camps of Poitiers and Montreuil-Bellay
Clara Dijkstra
5. Remembering the Roma Genocide: The Case of the Buchenwald Memorial after 1989
Maëlle Lepitre
6. Punctum of the Invisible: Methodological and Ethical Reflections on Images of the Holocaust of Roma and Sinti
Renata Berkyová
7. ‘Desk Murderers’ at Work?: The Role of the ‘Reich Central Office for Combating the Gypsy Nuisance’ in the Nazi Genocide of Sinti and Roma
Verena Meier
Biography
Barbara Warnock is the Co-Director of The Wiener Holocaust Library. She is co-author of Berlin-London: The Lost Photographs of Gerty Simon (2019), and Fred Kormis: Sculpting the Twentieth Century (2024). She obtained her doctorate in Austrian history from Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2016.
Clara Dijkstra is the Curator of The Wiener Holocaust Library. She obtained her doctorate in history from the University of Cambridge in 2025. She has held fellowships at the USC Centre for Advanced Genocide Research and the NIOD in Amsterdam, and co-edited Holocaust Letters: Methodologies, Cases and Reflections (2026).
