Ana AraujoVenezuela I’m looking for information about the whole Holocaust. I have found and heard some information in the Jewish community "Bejt Simcha”, and in the Terezin Initiative. I have visited Terezin and the Jewish museum about the concentration camp. But I have not found any written information about the Roma Holocaust here in the […]
Stories & Responses
We all come from God
Eva RidajováJuly 2000Nové StrasecíI attend distance studies at the Secondary Social and Legal School of the Evangelical Academy in Prague. I have finished my third year. The program runs for five years. In 1977, with the assistance of the Rajko Djuric Foundation, George Soros, and the Open Society Fund in Prague, this school opened the […]
I love to entertain people
Author: Martin Mistr(taped by Marketa Vaculova)Location: OstravaEven though I’m a Rom, I’ve never encountered either hatred or racial discrimination. Teachers neither laughed at me nor denounced me. My schoolmates never beat me up. Just the opposite. When I had some learning difficulties in the first grade, my teachers helped me out. My schoolmates liked me […]
They worked together
John ShattuckU.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republicin conversation withJohn W. ErwinDirectorThe Stories Exchange ProjectU.S. Ambassador’s ResidencePrague28 November 2000John ErwinHow about the Roms? How well do they remember – and what do they remember? Are they putting themselves into their story, their history, at this point?John ShattuckThey’re just beginning to write some of their stories. In Romany culture […]
He noticed a hand-carved violin on the kitchen table
Eva Ridajová Nové StrasecíAugust 2000This is the fourth year of my distance studies at the Secondary Social and Legal School in Prague. In the third year I met a Romany assistant – whose name I will keep to myself. We met in the university residence hall where we stay every three weeks. He was there with some […]
What has he left to me? My name
Emilie HorackovaMimonJuly 2000My father had a terrible childhood. He and his entire family were sent to Auschwitz. I’m not sure, but I think his family all died there. I know that my father and grandpa were there, and that grandpa died there.My father was the only one of his family who survived.He was transported to […]
The main thing is I feel safe
Author: Jan Horvath Jr.Location: StudenkaI am seventeen years old.When I had successfully completing the ninth grade of the Grammar School in Brno, my father enrolled me in the Higher Technical Library and Information Systems School. My story started there. When I began in September as a freshman I was the center of attention. I was […]
If we had a real table, real food…
The Stories Exchange Project 2000 Workshop V EastWest Institute Prague 19 June 2000 Jan Vesely Drug Prevention Program Brno We were looking for a form: how to present stories that have been gathered in the Stories Exchange Project. At first we felt like putting it on stage. So we turned to a guy from a […]
You pull the levers of democracy
John ShattuckU.S. Ambassador to the Czech Republicin conversation withJohn W. ErwinDirectorThe Stories Exchange ProjectU.S. Ambassador’s ResidencePrague28 November 2000John ShattuckThe Stories Exchange Project, I think, is a way of getting people totalk about things that matter to them: things that are in their heartsand in their backgrounds.People often see each other in settings where they speak […]
His tunes meant bread,water,fire,rain and sun
Jan Horváth August 2000StudénkaI would like to tell you the story of a man who has made history in Romany music. Unfortunately he is no longer with us. He died three years ago. Jozef Gina was born into a musical family in May 1928 in the Saris region of the Presov district in eastern Slovakia. […]
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