The chapter discusses the autobiographies of two Romani Holocaust survivors from Czechoslovakia, written between 1957-1989, in order to explore the postwar experiences of Romani Holocaust survivors with the public presentation of their wartime fate and their identity as Roma in an atmosphere of sidelining the history of specific Holocaust victims, continued stigmatization of Romani identity, and state control of G*psies. Emphasizing the importance of research focused on the post-war activities of the Roma themselves, the text explores the spaces in which the Roma Holocaust could be memorialized in communist Czechoslovakia and the struggle of Romani survivors to assert the importance of their history in the public sphere and consciousness. By focusing on navigating contemporary social structures, ideological discourses, and persistent anti-G*psy stereotypes, the text also illustrates the complexity of negotiating their multiple public identities as socialist citizens, Holocaust survivors, and Roma in postwar Czechoslovakia.

The chapter was published in: Celia Donert and Eve Rosenhaft (eds.), The Legacies of the Romani Genocide in Europe Since 1945 (Routledge, 2021), 183-213.