THE GERMANS IN SOMBOR AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD: PEOPLE NOT TALKED ABOUT, BUT AROUND US - JUST FORGOTTEN, OR CONSCIOUSLY HUSHED UP? -
THE GERMANS IN SOMBOR AND ITS NEIGHBORHOOD: PEOPLE NOT TALKED ABOUT, BUT AROUND US - JUST FORGOTTEN, OR CONSCIOUSLY HUSHED UP? -

Author(s): Farkaš Ištvan
Subject(s): Recent History (1900 till today), Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Ethnic Minorities Studies, Identity of Collectives
Published by: Helsinški odbor za ljudska prava u Srbiji
Keywords: Farkaš Ištvan; Sombor; Germans; ethnicity; minority group; culture;
Summary/Abstract: I have a lot of friends, chums and acquaintances among the Germans in Sombor. I’m not even aware how many. There are, perhaps, many more, but I have never managed to find out. Finally, only a few years ago, I have become somehow aware of there existence next to us. I have even known more about the Jews, maybe the least known of our neighbors, than about the Germans. I knew better the Muslims the Vaishnavas, the Poles and the Czechs, so rarely present in my immediate surroundings. I “studied” them to a certain extent. Not that I didn’t know that two or three German families lived in my street, some of them being good friends of mine. Not that I didn’t know that a couple of Germans were my classmates, and that some of my teachers were of German extraction.

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