New Research on Roma and the Holocaust Symposium September 18, 2014

Fostering Scholarship and Research The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum serves as this country’s national institution for Holocaust education and remembrance. The Museum’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies supports scholarship and publications in the ﬁeld of Holocaust studies, promotes the growth of Holocaust studies at American universities, seeks to foster strong relationships between American and international scholars, collects Holocaust- related archival documents worldwide, and organizes programs to ensure the ongoing training of future generations of scholars. In carrying out its mission, the Mandel Center works together with the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Council.

Cover: Deportation of Sinti and Roma from Asperg, Germany (May 22, 1940). Bundesarchiv R 165 Bild-244-52

100 Raoul Wallenberg Place, SW Washington, DC 20024-2126 JACK, JOSEPH AND MORTON MANDEL T 202.488.0400 CENTER FOR ADVANCED HOLOCAUST STUDIES

1 THE INTERNATIONAL TRACING SERVICE COLLECTIONS AND HOLOCAUST SCHOLARSHIP UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 1 CHS.00701B.PRO New Research on Roma and the Holocaust

10–10:30 a.m. Welcome and Opening Remarks

WELCOME Robert M. Ehrenreich Director of University Programs, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

OPENING REMARKS Ethel Brooks Associate Professor, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University and Member, United States Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

10:30–11:45 a.m. Panel 1: Histories of Persecution

CHAIR Roma and Serbs who have been rounded up for deportation are marched to the M. Benjamin Thorne, Assistant Professor, Department Jasenovac concentration camp in Croatia (1942–43). Muzej Revolucije Narodnosti of History and Political Science, Wingate University Jugoslavije Memorijalni Muzej Jasenovac and 2008–09 Raul Hilberg Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

PRESENTERS This interdisciplinary international symposium showcases Melissa Hughes, PhD candidate, Department of new and emerging scholarship on Roma and the Holocaust History, Florida State University The Geographical and Temporal Persecution of Roma across Europe. Scholars in the field will present their research on the prewar persecution of Roma, the decimation Tatiana Sirbu, Postdoctoral Researcher, Université of Romani communities in the Holocaust, and its effects on Catholique de Louvain The Policy of the “Tsigan Villages” in Bessarabia under Roma in the war’s aftermath. Three Administrations: Tsarist, Romanian, and Soviet (1812–1956)

Danijel Vojak, Senior Research Assistant, Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences New Research on the Social Position of the Roma before and during World War II in the Independent State of Croatia during the Holocaust

UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 1 RESPONDENT 2–3:15 p.m. Panel 3: Justice and Memory in the Aftermath Nadine Blumer, SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Ethnographic Research and Exhibition in CHAIR the Aftermath of Violence, Concordia University Michelle Kelso, Assistant Professor of Sociology and and 2013–14 Cummings Foundation Fellow, International Affairs, Department of Sociology, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum George Washington University and 2008–09 Charles H. Revson Fellow, United States 11:45 a.m.– Break Holocaust Memorial Museum 12:45 p.m. PRESENTERS Anna Abakunova, PhD Candidate, Department of 12:45–2 p.m. Panel 2: Roma in the Concentration Camps History, Dnipropetrovsk National University The Deportation and Annihilation of Roma in CHAIR Transnistria during the Holocaust: Reconstruction Volha Bartash, Research Fellow, Helsinki Collegium of Roma Individual Memory for Advanced Studies, University of Helsinki and 2013–14 Jeff and Toby Herr Fellow, United States Michal Schuster, Lecturer, Institute of History, Holocaust Memorial Museum Masaryk University and Historian and Curator, Museum of Romani Culture PRESENTERS The Prosecution of Individuals Responsible for the Racial Steffen Jost, PhD candidate, Department of History, Persecution of Czech Roma Munich Ludwig Maximilian University Terézia Szűcs, Research Fellow, Department of Sinti and Roma in German Concentration Camps: Modern Hungarian Literature, Eötvös Loránd Old Problems and New Perspectives on a Neglected Field University Patricia Pientka, PhD candidate, Department of The Remembrance and Representation of the Roma History, Humboldt University Berlin Holocaust in Menyhért Lakatos’s The Color of Smoke The Internment Camp for Sinti and Roma in Berlin- Marzahn: Everyday Life, Persecution and Deportation RESPONDENT Ari Joskowicz, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies Paola Trevisan, Researcher, Sinti Association Thém and European Studies, Department of History, Romanó of Reggio Emilia Vanderbilt University and 2013–14 Diane “Gypsies” in Fascist Italy: From Expelled Foreigners and Howard Wohl Fellow, United States to Dangerous Italians Holocaust Memorial Museum

RESPONDENT 3:15–3:30 p.m. Break Andrej Kotljarchuk, Researcher, School of Historical and Contemporary Studies, Södertörn University

2 JACK, JOSEPH AND MORTON MANDEL CENTER FOR ADVANCED HOLOCAUST STUDIES UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM 3 3:30–4:45 p.m. Panel 4: Roma and the Holocaust in Commemoration and Pedagogy

CHAIR Krista Hegburg, Program OΩcer, Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

PRESENTERS Danny M. Cohen, Assistant Professor of Instruction, School of Education and Social Policy, Northwestern University Teaching about the Porajmos: Guidelines for Including the Roma and Sinti Victims of Nazism within Holocaust Education

Anna Szász, PhD candidate, Department of Sociology, Eötvös Lóránd University Exploring the Memory of the Roma Holocaust in Hungary

Joanna Talewicz-Kwiatkowska, Lecturer, Intercultural Studies Institute, Jagiellonian University Forgotten Holocaust? Memorializing the Genocide Romani survivors of Auschwitz with their horses (Straubing, Germany, 1945–46). of European Roma US Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Joseph Eaton

RESPONDENT Ethel Brooks, Associate Professor, Departments of Women’s and Gender Studies and Sociology, Rutgers University and Member, United States Delegation to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance

4:45 p.m. Closing Remarks

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