![]() ![]() ![]() Panel I, entitled “Families as Transmitters of Experience and Memory”, asked how scholars might search for the traces of genocide in the subjective and material experiences of Romani families since the end of the Second World War, how they can trace and narrate the legacies of the Roma genocide within families of first-, second- and third-generation survivors, and to what extent we can compare the memories of persecution of Roma with those of other survivors. Third, and more broadly, it sought to overcome the tendency to write histories of Roma in isolation from national and European histories. It raised the possibility of co-production of knowledge by including Roma activists and second- and third-generation survivors who reflected on the politics of memory and the impact of the Romani Holocaust on the lives of Roma in the postwar period. In their introduction, CELIA DONERT (University of Liverpool) and KATEŘINA ČAPKOVÁ (Institute of Contemporary History, Prague) explained that the conference aimed to bring anthropological perspectives and cultural insights from Romani studies into dialogue with historical scholarship. Part of a series of events exploring the legacies of the Romani genocide in postwar European history, this conference took the ‘family’ as a lens for exploring Romani history, memory, and experience. ![]()
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