The Wiener Holocaust Library is delighted to be hosting the touring exhibition Roma Stories from 26 November – 2 December 2019 alongside our exhibition Forgotten Victims: The Nazi Genocide of the Roma and Sinti.
The Roma Stories Oral History Project shares experiences and stories of Roma people from Eastern and Central Europe who live in London.
A series of orally transmitted histories focus on the Roma genocide in the Second World War, life in postwar communist countries, and why and how individuals and families migrated to the UK. They tell us how Roma identity is perceived, how it is changing, how people experience living in London and how they belong here.
Throughout the ages, Roma people’s experience has often been marginalised or written out of history altogether. This project has captured a plethora of Roma voices, which reflect the varied nature of the human experience of one of Europe’s most discriminated ethnic minorities.
This exhibition includes extracts from interviews, rarely seen photographic archives (Robert Dawson Collection, Roma Support Group) and artwork by Roma artist Robert Czibi.
