Ceija Stojka

Ceija Stojka

Ceija Stojka, 2008
Born 23 May 1933
Kraubath an der Mur, Austria
Died 28 January 2013 (aged 79)
Nationality Austrian

Ceija Stojka (1933 – 2013) was an Austrian-Romani writer, painter and musician, survivor of the Holocaust.[1]

Stojka was born in Kraubath an der Mur, Styria, the fifth of six children, sister of Karl Stojka and Mongo Stojka, also writers and musicians. The family belonged to the Lovari caste. Together with her mother and four of the five brothers, she survived the Holocaust and internment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Her father was sent to the Dachau concentration camp, then to Schloss Hartheim, where he was killed.

After the end of World War II, their family saw the lack of acknowledgement of the Porajmos in Austria, the population’s ignorance concerning this suffering and the continuation of some anti-Romani policies. The publication of her first autobiographic book in 1988, We Live in Seclusion. The Memories of a Romni made public the issues concerning the Nazi persecution of the Austrian Romani people (later continued in 1992, when Travellers on This World was published).

Ceija Stojka is featured in the 2013 documentary film Forget Us Not, which follows several non-Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.[2]

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References

  1. ↑ derStandard.at. "Roma-Künstlerin Ceija Stojka gestorben - Literatur - derStandard.at › Kultur". Derstandard.at. Retrieved 2013-01-29.
  2. ↑ "Roma Holocaust survivor and artist Ceija Stojka dies". BBC News. 30 January 2013. Retrieved 30 January 2013.

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