Abstract
Rosa Raidich is a Roma woman who was sent to confinement in Italy at the end of the 1930s and until at least 1944. We have tried to reconstruct her life with the help of central and local archives, press articles, and literature of the time, but also through the memories of survivors and the places of her internment. What emerges is the portrait of a woman struggling not against society but against the arbitrary rules that force her to be cut off from all society. A woman facing a society that rejects her, excludes her; confronted with institutional practices that condemn her to live in abject poverty and as an outlaw; practices, in fact, whose purpose was to make her disappear. Rosa’s “banal” story reflects that of all Roma and Sinti women and is emblematic of the history of exclusion and resistance of this community in Italy under fascism, after World War II, and still today.
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