Abstract:
Against the backdrop of a second persecution that Sinti/ze and Rom/nja faced after 1945, survivors of the genocide came forward late to claim their rights. They developed strategies to make their rights visible, including the creation of memorials to convey knowledge about the history of the genocide.
Using the categories of memory and generation, which form the theoretical framework of this essay, the following case study based on two narrative interviews provides insights into the transgenerational transmission of traumatic experiences on the one hand, and into a form of organized memorial work on the other. The central question is to what extent coming to terms with the past from the perspective of members of the minority serves to process inherited traumas and overcome social marginalization.

Leonard Stöcklein is a graduate in Latin, History and Politics. He works as a research assistant at the Chair for Didactics of History at the FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and is currently writing his dissertation on "Memorials of the Sinti and Roma in Germany since 1980". His research interests include acts of solidarity between Jews and Sinti and Roma as well as the history of the genocide of Sinti and Roma in Belarus. He is a member of the Gesellschaft für Antiziganismusforschung.
Contact: leonard.stoecklein@fau.de

Joey Rauschenberger studied history, German philology and world history at the University of Heidelberg. During his studies, he received a scholarship from the Friedrich Ebert Foundation and worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Contemporary History and in various research projects on National Socialism and its aftermath. He has been a research assistant at the Research Center on Antigypsyism at the University of Heidelberg and a Ph.D. candidate in a collaborative project on dealing with the Nazi past in Baden-Württemberg. His dissertation deals with the compensation of Sinti and Roma as victims of National Socialism.
Contact: joey.rauschenberger@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de