Simultaneous Persecution – Shared Experiences? Roma and Jews in the Slovak State

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Result on the web

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2025.2566566" target="_blank" >10.1080/14623528.2025.2566566</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Simultaneous Persecution – Shared Experiences? Roma and Jews in the Slovak State

Original language description

Roma and Jews occupied a similar space in the mindset of the wartime Slovak authorities when they designed persecution policies that targeted these groups. This article explores the various entanglements produced by this persecution, examining not only policy proposals, legal norms, and persecution practices, but also collective and individual experiences and memories. Focusing on several aspects of the wartime experiences of Slovak Jews and Roma (such as displacement, forced labour, and participation in the Slovak Army or the resistance), the authors explore the simultaneity, parallels, separations, and asymmetries in the implementation of particular persecution policies, as well as the different types of entanglements of the local Jewish and Romani communities in them. By examining how Romani and Jewish individuals perceived each others&apos; persecution, the article emphasizes the complex interwar relationships among members of the two communities, particularly in rural Slovakia, as a key phenomenon that especially shaped the Romani memory of the destruction of the Jews. In this context, the article also discusses the asymmetrical silence regarding the position of local Roma in Jewish testimonies, a silence shared by both Jewish survivors and their interviewers, even in the post-socialist era. Building on its exploration of the asymmetrical dynamics of postwar recognition of Jewish and Romani Holocaust victims, the article also highlights specific initiatives in which the predominance of Jewish recognition and Holocaust memory has facilitated the inclusion of Romani co-sufferers, for example, in certain compensation programmes.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Project

Result was created during the realization of more than one project. More information in the Projects tab.

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Genocide Research

ISSN

1462-3528

e-ISSN

1469-9494

Volume of the periodical

27

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

598-620

UT code for WoS article

001609783700001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105021349707