Searching for Entanglement: Roma and Jews in Dismembered Czechoslovakia during World War II

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623528.2025.2576333" target="_blank" >10.1080/14623528.2025.2576333</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Searching for Entanglement: Roma and Jews in Dismembered Czechoslovakia during World War II

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Even as it has become increasingly accepted that the genocide of Roma and Sinti was interconnected to the genocide of European Jews, few scholars have written histories that integrated different victim groups into a coherent narrative. Even fewer have considered how the victim groups viewed one another or examined to what extent the persecuted understood their own experience as part of an integrated genocide with common roots and similar routes. That is certainly true for the former Czechoslovakia, the subject of this special issue. This study sketches out the general state of scholarship on the subject and establishes the context for the articles that follow. In all the regions we focus on - the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Slovak State, and the territory of interwar Czechoslovakia annexed by Nazi-allied Hungary - we found that state administrations and parts of the population frequently viewed the genocides of the Roma and Jews as interconnected processes. Many Roma expected to face the same fate as the Jews, and many ultimately did. Despite some similarities, notable differences emerged from our collective regional comparison. While searching for the entangled personal experiences of Roma and Jews during the war, we found the most examples, often involving mutual assistance, in the Slovak State. Slovakia was also the only region where a commensurate number of Jews and Roma lived before the war and where these communities had long been socio-economically intertwined. In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, by contrast, the testimonies of Jews and Roma indicate that the first intense encounters commonly occurred in ghettos and concentration camps, particularly in the so-called family camps of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. In Carpathian Ruthenia, Roma were also likely slated to be deported to Auschwitz, as almost all Jews had been, but the advance of Soviet troops prevented mass destruction.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Searching for Entanglement: Roma and Jews in Dismembered Czechoslovakia during World War II

Popis výsledku anglicky

Even as it has become increasingly accepted that the genocide of Roma and Sinti was interconnected to the genocide of European Jews, few scholars have written histories that integrated different victim groups into a coherent narrative. Even fewer have considered how the victim groups viewed one another or examined to what extent the persecuted understood their own experience as part of an integrated genocide with common roots and similar routes. That is certainly true for the former Czechoslovakia, the subject of this special issue. This study sketches out the general state of scholarship on the subject and establishes the context for the articles that follow. In all the regions we focus on - the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, the Slovak State, and the territory of interwar Czechoslovakia annexed by Nazi-allied Hungary - we found that state administrations and parts of the population frequently viewed the genocides of the Roma and Jews as interconnected processes. Many Roma expected to face the same fate as the Jews, and many ultimately did. Despite some similarities, notable differences emerged from our collective regional comparison. While searching for the entangled personal experiences of Roma and Jews during the war, we found the most examples, often involving mutual assistance, in the Slovak State. Slovakia was also the only region where a commensurate number of Jews and Roma lived before the war and where these communities had long been socio-economically intertwined. In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, by contrast, the testimonies of Jews and Roma indicate that the first intense encounters commonly occurred in ghettos and concentration camps, particularly in the so-called family camps of Auschwitz II-Birkenau. In Carpathian Ruthenia, Roma were also likely slated to be deported to Auschwitz, as almost all Jews had been, but the advance of Soviet troops prevented mass destruction.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60500 - Other Humanities and the Arts

Projekt

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Návaznosti

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

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

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

Název periodika

Journal of Genocide Research

ISSN

1462-3528

e-ISSN

1469-9494

Svazek periodika

27

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

4

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

15

Strana od-do

561-575

Kód UT WoS článku

001613004500001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

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