Ceija Stojka is an Austria

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n-Romani writer, painter and musician, survivor of the Holocaust.

She is from the Lovari caste, the fifth of six children, sister of Karl Stojka and Mongo Stojka, also writers and musicians. Together with her mother and four of the five brothers she survived the Holocaust and the internment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen

Bergen-Belsen concentration camp

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. Her father was sent to the Dachau concentration camp, then to Schloss Hartheim

Hartheim Euthanasia Centre

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, where he was killed.

After the end of the World War II

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 their family saw the lack of acknowledgement of the Porajmos

Porajmos

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 in Austria, the population’s ignorance concerning this suffering and the continuation of some anti-Romani policies. The publication of her first autobiographic book in 1988, We Live in Seclusion. The Memories of a Romni made public the issues concerning the Nazi persecution of the Austrian Romani people (later continued in 1992, when Travellers on This World was published).

Works

• Wir leben im Verborgenen. Erinnerungen einer Rom-Zigeunerin "We Live in Seclusion. The Memories of a Romni" (1988)
• Reisende auf dieser Welt "Travellers on This World" (1992)
• Meine Wahl zu schreiben - ich kann es nicht (2003 - Gedichte)
• Me Diklem Suno "I dreamt" (Audio-CD)
• Träume ich, dass ich lebe? Befreit aus Bergen-Belsen (2005)

External links

• The Stojka family
• A Holocaust survivor (article at The Hindu
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• Presentation at Jewish Museum Vienna