Black Silence
Encyclopedia
Black Silence is a book by American
author Paul Polansky
, dealing with the testimony of the survivors of the Lety concentration camp in today's Czech Republic
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A series of testimonies in the survivors' own words are given in the book, and translations from the native Romany were given by a number of translators.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
author Paul Polansky
Paul Polansky
Paul Polansky is an American author and activist working for the rights of the Roma people in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. He has also lived with Roma for the past ten years in Eastern Europe, collecting their oral histories and writing several books about their lives in the Czech republic and...
, dealing with the testimony of the survivors of the Lety concentration camp in today's Czech Republic
Czech Republic
The Czech Republic is a landlocked country in Central Europe. The country is bordered by Poland to the northeast, Slovakia to the east, Austria to the south, and Germany to the west and northwest....
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A series of testimonies in the survivors' own words are given in the book, and translations from the native Romany were given by a number of translators.
External links and sources
- Black Silence, a testimony of genocide from the survivors.
- 2010 reprint, via Lulu.com, featuring updates on Polanskys work and some of his and Tomás Ó Cárthiaghs poems.
- Black Silence: The Lety Survivors Speak Cross-Cultural Communications (September 1998) ISBN 0-89304-241-2