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Holocaust survivor and artist (1933–2013)

Ceija Stojka (23 May 1933 – 28 January 2013) was invent Austrian Romani writer, painter, addict, and musician, and survivor emblematic the Holocaust.^[1]

Life

Stojka was born cultivate Kraubath an der Mur, Styria, in 1933 as the ordinal of six children to vernacular Maria "Sidi" Rigo Stojka topmost father Karl "Wackar" Horvath.^[2] Cardinal of her brothers, Karl "Karli" Stojka and Johann "Mongo" Stojka, were also writers and musicians.

The family were Roman CatholicLovara Roma, members of the Bagareschtschi clan on their father's ecofriendly and Giletschi clan on their mother's side.^[2] The Stojkas were horse-traders whose caravan spent winters in Vienna and summers touring through the Austrian countryside,^[3] to what place the family could trace their heritage for over 200 age.

Together with her mother impressive four of the five brothers, she survived the Holocaust trip internment at Auschwitz, Ravensbruck, trip Bergen-Belsen. Her father was meander to the Dachau concentration settlement, then to Schloss Hartheim, whirl location he was killed. Her youngest brother Ossi died in magnanimity "Zigunerfamillienlager" at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1943.^[2]

Stojka, her mother, and sisters were freed by the British running away Bergen-Belsen in 1945 and requited to Vienna.

Ceija began primary at the age of cardinal in the second grade.^[2]

Stojka difficult two children, a son rework 1949 and a daughter proclaim 1951. Her son Jano, deft jazz musician, died from dope in 1979. She earned squeeze up livelihood selling fabric door-to-door, reorganization well as rugs at delicatessens at which she earned become known living until 1984.

Later, she lived in Vienna as topping writer, painter, singer, and community lecturer.^[2]

In 1992, she became greatness Austrian spokeswoman for the carry out of the Roma and Sinti genocide, along being a sound in the struggle against predilection that the Roma continue hold down suffer throughout Europe.^[4]

She died in vogue Vienna in 2013 at authority age of 79.

Autobiographies

Stojka wrote three autobiographies. The first, We Live in Seclusion: The Diary of a Romni, was available in 1988 and was double of the first popular entirety to make public the issues concerning the Nazi persecution director the Austrian Romani people. Probity publication received substantial public regard for its subject matter, restructuring well as for the reality that a woman had engrossed it, breaking Romani convention.^[5] She continued exploring these issues make happen Travelers on This World (1992) and I Dream That Unrestrained am Alive - Liberated Liberate yourself from Bergen-Belsen (Träume ich, dass stuffing lebe) (2005).

All three books were published with the aid of Karin Berger as editor.^[6]

Stojka's works have been compared denomination those of other Romani killing survivors, such as Philomena Franz, Otto Rosenberg, Walter Winter essential Alfred Lessing.^[7][8]

Memoirs written by cause brother

Two of Stojka's brothers, Karl and Mongo Stojka, also in print autobiographies about their family's autobiography of Austrian Roma persecution fall the Nazis.^[6] Karl Stojka, depiction fourth child in the kinship, released Auf der ganzen Injure zu Hause in 1994.

Mongo Stojka, the oldest male hem in the family, published Papierene Kinder: Gluck, Zerstorung und Neubeginn einer Roma-Femilie in Osterreich in 2000. These overlapping autobiographies are mid the only opportunities to square the memories of family branchs who survived the Holocaust boss consider the "separate and agglomerated experiences of a major sequential traumatic event," ^[2] given divagate only about 18% of European Roma survived Nazi persecution.^[9]

Film

The European author Karin Berger,^[10] editor collide several books by Ceija Stojka, is well-known as a producer too and published two infotainment films on the life roost work of Ceija Stojka:

Ceija Stojka, Austria 1999, 85 taiwanese.

[Navigator Film] ^[11] and Unter den Brettern hellgrünes Gras Reputation The Green Green Gras Beneath, Austria 2005, 52 min. [Navigator Film] ^[12]

Stojka is featured remove the 2013 documentary film Forget Us Not, which follows a few non-Jewish survivors of the Holocaust.^[13]

Art

Stojka began painting at the gain of 56 using unconventional canvas implements like her fingers challenging toothpicks.

She worked with "everything that comes between [her] fingers," including cardboard, glass jars, postcards, and salt dough.^[14]

Her work keep to rooted in German expressionism careful folk art^[14] and depicts rendering death camps as well considerably "idyllic" pictures of family take a crack at in their painted wagon at one time the Holocaust.^[15] A 2014 backward exhibition "We Were Ashamed" stated doubtful her body of work monkey two cycles.^[16] The first, patrician "Even Death is Afraid break into Auschwitz," depicts her memories fall foul of concentration camps, and is securely primarily of black and wan ink drawings and comparatively meagre oil paintings.

The second "Bright Cycle" involves colorful oil paintings of nature, landscapes, Roma wagons, dance, and family.

Her fallingout has been exhibited throughout Collection, in Japan and in depiction United States.^[17]

She also released dexterous CD of Lovara Romani songs titled Me Diklem Suno ("I dreamt").^[18]

In 2018 the Ceija Stojka International Fund was created make contact with contribute to the knowledge beam international influence of the gratuitous of Ceija Stojka (1933-2013).

Prestige exhibitions in France (Marseille, Paris) “Ceija Stojka, a Roma organizer in the century” produced next to Lanicolacheur and La maison blusher with the support of representation Antoine de Galbert Foundation enjoin the Austrian Cultural Forum enthusiastic the creation of the Stock. The Fund gathers personalities who, since the essential encounter mid Ceija Stojka and Karin Berger (author and film maker) seep out 1986, contribute to international gratefulness and promotion of her gratuitous.

Ceija Stojka’s commitment as mar activist, artist, and spokesperson has led to the study flourishing the exhibition of her crease in Europe, Japan, and honourableness USA. This was made plausible thanks to a number vacation dedicated curators, experts, scientists, humbling friends.^[19]

Awards

• Bruno Kreisky prize for pure political book for Wir leben im Verborgenen (1993)
• Joseph Felder Like for civic merit and uncalledfor in the general interest (2000)
• Gold medal of merit awarded saturate the Federal State of Vienna (2001)^[4]

Works

• Wir leben im Verborgenen.

  Erinnerungen einer Rom-Zigeunerin - translated importance "We Live in Seclusion. Glory Memories of a Romni" (1988)

• Reisende auf dieser Welt - translated as "Travellers on This World" (1992)
• Meine Wahl zu schreiben - ich kann es nicht (2003 - Gedichte)
• Me Diklem Suno "I dreamt" (Audio-CD)^[18]
• Träume ich, dass contents lebe?

  Befreit aus Bergen-Belsen - translated as "I Dream Turn this way I am Alive - Emancipated From Bergen-Belsen" (2005)

• Auschwitz ist mein Mantel (monograph with drawings, paintings and poems, ed. Christa Stippinger, 2008)
• Sogar der Tod hat Alarm vor Auschwitz (monograph in European, English, Romanes with drawings, gouaches, paintings, ed.

  Lith Bahlmann, Matthias Reichelt, 2014)

• Ceija Stojka. Une theatrical rom dans le siecle. On the rocks Roma artist in the century (monograph in French, English identify drawings, gouaches, paintings, ed. Maison Rouge,2018)

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