Testimonies of Roma and Sinti

Čapková, Kateřina

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Čapková, Kateřina; Berkyová, Renata; Patočková, Radka; Zdařilová, Eva and Jandák, Marek, 2024, Testimonies of Roma and Sinti, LINDAT/CLARIAH-CZ digital library at the Institute of Formal and Applied Linguistics (ÚFAL), http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12800/1-5685.

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dc.contributor.author	Čapková, Kateřina
dc.contributor.author	Berkyová, Renata
dc.contributor.author	Patočková, Radka
dc.contributor.author	Zdařilová, Eva
dc.contributor.author	Jandák, Marek
dc.date.accessioned	2024-12-03T11:52:04Z
dc.date.available	2024-12-03T11:52:04Z
dc.date.issued	2024-10-01
dc.description	The key idea of our project is to convey to the widest possible readership detailed abstracts of the testimonies of Roma and Sinti and thus their personal and irreplaceable experience of the Second World War. We hope that the Testimonies of Roma and Sinti project will contribute to greater awareness of their genocide and will be an irreplaceable source of information for researchers, relatives of the victims, or anyone else interested in this important topic. First of all, we defined the project geographically: we focused on the testimonies of Roma and Sinti from the Bohemian lands (today's Czech Republic) and Slovakia. The second definition is that we are only processing printed testimonies into the database. A valuable, and extremely demanding, part of the database is the detailed abstracts of these testimonies prepared by Romani studies experts in cooperation with historians and linguistic stylists. These abstracts are important not only for Czech and Slovak readers, as many publications with testimonies are not easily accessible, but especially for users from abroad - whether researchers, members of Romani communities or any other interested parties - as the vast majority of the hundreds of published testimonies exist only in Czech, Slovak or Romani, and are thus inaccessible to most people from abroad. Within the database, the testimonies are analyzed according to several criteria, which allow detailed searches and their classification, for example, according to the type of war experience (internment, participation in armed struggle, hiding, etc.). In the analysis, we then focused mainly on geographical data. Therefore, projections of collected data on maps are an integral part of the database, which allow us to show the war trajectory of individuals and groups, to show, for example, the locations of mass murders or guerrilla fighting, or to search for testimonies related to a place.
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12800/1-5685
dc.language.iso	ces
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.publisher	Institute for Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
dc.relation.isreferencedby	https://www.romatestimonies.com
dc.relation.isreferencedby	https://www.svedectviromu.cz/
dc.rights	Creative Commons - Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
dc.rights.label	PUB
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subject	Roma
dc.subject	Sinti
dc.subject	testimonies
dc.subject	Holocaust
dc.subject	database
dc.subject	Second World War
dc.subject	Czechoslovakia
dc.subject	Slovakia
dc.subject	Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia
dc.subject	genocide
dc.title	Testimonies of Roma and Sinti
dc.type	OBRAZ
edm.type	TEXT
local.branding	LINDAT / CLARIAH-CZ
local.contact.person	Kateřina Čapková katerina.capkova@nyu.edu Institute of Contemporary History, Czech Academy of Sciences
local.contact.person	Kateřina Čapková katerina.capkova@ff.cuni.cz Charles University, Faculty of Arts
local.files.count	1
local.files.size	6849122
local.has.files	yes
local.language.name	Czech
local.language.name	English
local.size.info	50 mb
local.sponsor	nationalFunds 19-26638X Czech Science Foundation Genocide, Postwar Migration, and Social Mobility: Entangled Experiences of Roma and Jews, Excellence Project (EXPRO)
local.sponsor	nationalFunds https://identity.mua.cas.cz/cs/english The Czech Academy of Sciences Identities in the World of Wars and Crises
local.sponsor	ownFunds 21551, 22726, 24247, 24242, 25934 Bader Philanthropies Database of Romani Testimonies Related to the Second World War (2019-2024)