Female Romani Survivors and Their (Non-)Recognition as Victims of Fascism in East Germany

• In Event: Holocaust Remembrance of Roma and Sinti in Communist East Central Europe: Panel of the Prague Forum for Romani Histories

Abstract

Romani women were affected by entangled forms of discrimination as women and members of the minority during the Nazi persecution, but also in the period after liberation from the camps. This paper analyzes how intersectional forms of oppression affected female survivors who filed applications for the recognition of Victims of Fascism in East Germany under Soviet Occupation and in the GDR. Furthermore, it investigates the cases of women who did not belong to the Sinti or Roma minorities but were in a close relationship with Romani men and were thus persecuted by the Nazi police and faced problems with recognition as Victims of Fascism.

Author

• Verena Meier, U of Heidelberg (Germany)