Country resources
This page allows you to filter all the information contained in the country factsheet by themes and countries.
For instance, if you wish to have specific details about the recognition of the Roma Holocaust in any specific country, you can easily access this information by selecting the theme and the country.
Multimedia material
Blog:
C. Stojka’s personal profile about art and experiences during Second World War: "Buchautorin & Zeitzeugin Ceija Stojka. Geschichten aus der Zeit der NSDAP - Gedichte Malerei & Romamusik”.
Radio:
On the 19 November 2009, a ORF radio feature was broadcasted on “20 Jahre Roma-Bewegung in Österreich” (20 years of Roma mouvements in Austria).
Interview:
The Verein Roma-Service conducted the project "Mri historija / Meine Geschichte: Lebensgeschichten burgenländischer Roma" (2006-2009) [My story: life stories of Roma from Burgenland], led by Emmerich Gärtner-Horvath. The research group published several DVDs with interviews (including texts and pictures related to the interviewees).
Presentation of the DVD and some images.
Websites
The project “ROMBASE. Didactically edited information on Roma” – which belongs to the University of Graz – has European funds and offers a web database of many aspects related to Roma, for instance Roma history - especially about the Holocaust -, literature, language, personalities etc. It includes pictures, original texts or documents and videos.The text is written in English, German and Czech.
The aim of this project is to contribute to the decrease of prejudice and combat discrimination. It furthermore aims at improving the educational situation of the Roma.
This website offers didactical materials related to the Samudaripen, several bibliographies and a list of films and documentaries.
Erinnern.at, Nationalsozialismus und Holocaust: Gedächtnis und Gegenwart
Filmography
1970: “Att Vara Zigarne” (Be a Roma). Documentary. Sweden. Director: Peter Nestler. 47 min.
Testimonies about the persecution and murder of German and Austrian Roma during the Nazi era, and also the consequences up to the present.
1985: “Ich war im KZ – Teil 5 ‘Rückkehr unerwünscht’ - Die Gaskammer” (I was in a concentration camp. Part 5. ‘Return Undesirable’ – The gas chambers). Documentary. Austria. Director: Karl Brousek. 25 min.
\"Euthanasia\" was the code for the first mass murder campaign against Jewish and Roma people - from Germany and Austria - which used poison gas. Four witnesses report their experiences.
1986: “Minderheiten in Österreich: Zigeuner” (Minorities in Austria: Roma)
Documentary. Austria. Director: Heinz Sturm. 15 min.
About Roma people’s cultural, political and economic problems in Austria, especially in Burgenland, including some historical perspectives.
1989: “The Forgotten Holocaust”. Documentary. United Kingdom. Director: George Case. 50 min.
About the persecution and genocide of the European Roma. Some Roma survivors from Germany, Hungary, Austria, Poland, France and the Netherlands are interviewed about this topic.
1990: “Sidonie”. Feature film. Austria. Director: Karin Brandauer. 87 min.
About the life of a 15 year old Roma girl, Sidonie, who was killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz.
1995: “Amen sam so amen sam – ‘Wir sind, was wir sind’” (We Are What We Are). Docudrama. Austria. Director: Hans Panner. 36 min. Language: Romani.
About the Roma history in Burgerland (Austria) up to the present. The film\'s narrative tells the story of a child who was born in a concentration camp.
1998: “Meine ‘Zigeuner’ mutter” (My Gypsy Mother). Documentary. Austria. Director: Egor Humer. 30 min.
About the relationship between a daughter and her mother, a Roma who was a survivor of different concentration camps. Her life-story influences this relationship.
1999: “Ceija Stojka - Portrait einer Romni” (Ceija Stojka – Portrait of a Roma)
Documentary. Austria. Director: Karin Berger. 85 min.
It is the portrait of the Austrian Ceija Stojka, a 66 year old woman who survived the Nazi concentration camps.
2001: “Eine lästige Gesellschaft” (An annoying society). Documentary. Austria. Director: Marika Schmiedt. 75 min.
The artist Marika Schmiedt went on a search for traces of her family, who were murdered during the Third Reich. Her experiences during this research have been documented on video.
2001: “Herzfleischentartung” (Heart Flesh Degeneration). Documentary. Austria. Director: Ludwig Laher.
About the persecution of Roma people during the Nazi era and the concentration camps.
2005: “Unter den Brettern hellgrünes Gras” (Under the leaves light green grass). Documentary. Austria. Director: Karin Berger. 52 min.
About Ceija Stojka’s life: she was a child in the concentration camps of Auschwitz, Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen, where she - and her mother - were liberated.
2006: “Sinti ob der Enns - Wider die Zigeunerklischees” (Roma people from Enns –against Roma clichés). Documentary. Austria. Director: Ludwig Laher. 20 min.
Some witnesses speak about the Roma people they knew before the Holocaust and about the Roma’s everyday life at that moment.
2006: “Ketani heißt miteinander. Sintiwirklichkeiten statt Zigeunerklischees” (Ketani means together. Sinti Reality versus Gypsy Cliché). Documentary. Austria. Director: Ludwig Laher. 71 min. Languages: German and Romani.
About the history and the present of the Roma people in Austria. Elderly people describe their experiences: some of them report from the dreadful period of persecution during the Nazi regime