Die andere Shoah: der Genozid an den ,Zigeunern‘ in der Literatur nach 1989
The Other Shoah: The Genocide on the ‘Gypsies’ in Literature after 1989

Summary/Abstract: Prejudices against the Romani people, who are still often discriminatorily called Zigeuner, gypsies, gitanes or gitanos, still have an influence on the cultural memory discourse of the Shoah. The genocide of the Romani is either denied or trivialised. The fact that there are hardly any autobiographies of Romani survivors results from an inability to process extreme trauma, while the conventions of the people concerned prohibits them from speaking out about their trauma in the language of the perpetrators. It is thanks to the committed work of civil rights movements that Romani victims could collaborate with writers and publishers to finally tell the majority cultures of their suffering and of the genocide of the Romani people.

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