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Author(s): Author Not Specified
Subject(s): Military history, Oral history, Social history, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
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Summary/Abstract: After the end of the Second World War, Slovak Roma became part of the Czech Republic’s industrial and construction business development by migrating to Czech cities for work. This part of modern Czech history is neither thoroughly covered by historians and biographic researchers, nor known to the lay public. The project Memory of Roma Workers aims at filling that gap through the participative collection of interviews with Slo vak Roma witnesses in co operation with their descendants, and subsequently displaying the stories in a street exhibition and archiving the interviews in the Czech Museum of Roma Culture. Over the course of the work, it has become apparent that the life stories of most of the witnesses represent suitable material for self reliant publication. Thus, the collection of nine male and seven female interviews has been edited into the form of stylized life story narratives. The witnesses come from the industrial region of Ostrava and the city of Brno, and they range in the year of birth from 1933 to 1966. The stories of two married couples are presented as well. The narratives include elements of Czech language local dialects, as well as the expression of the Roma Czech ethnolect. The length as well as the narrative style has been edited in order to express the dramaturgic focal point of each life story as accented by the narrators themselves; nevertheless, the author openly confesses to performing conceptual work with the narratives.

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