Abstract
AbstractThousands of Roma were killed in Ukraine by the Nazis and auxiliary police on the spot. There are more than 50,000 Roma in today’s Ukraine, represented by second and third generation decendants of the genocide survivors. The discussion on Roma identity cannot be isolated from the memory of the genocide, which makes the struggle over the past a reflexive landmark that mobilizes the Roma movement. About twenty Roma genocide memorials have been erected in Ukraine during last decade, and in 2016 the national memorial of the Roma genocide was opened in Babi Yar. However, scholars do not have a clear picture of memory narratives and memory practices of the Roma genocide in Ukraine. A comprehensive analysis of the contemporary situation is not possible without an examination of the history and memory of the Roma genocide before 1991.
Highlights
About 250,000–500,000 Romani were persecuted by the Nazis and their allies and collaborators in Europe during World War II
Her research examined how the very idea of the Roma and Sinti genocide memorial arose as a response to the proposal to build a central, reunified memorial devoted to the Holocaust, and how this idea fell out of favour due to the competing interests of various memory actors (Blumer 2013)
Slawomir Kapralski argues that the issue of the memory of the Roma genocide depends on changing dynamics of perceptions and memory practices, which are influenced by the development of the Roma genocide discourse and transformation of the past into a symbolic value of modern Romani identity (Kapralsky 2013)
Summary
Legal theory treats dolus generalis and dolus specialis differently in cases of mass crimes against humanity. It means that a genocide did not occur when the mass murder of individual members of an ethnic group (dolus generalis) did not have the specific intent (dolus specialis) of exterminating the community as such (Schabas 2000, 213–225). The Nazi annihilation of Roma and Jewish people is, in a legal sense, genocide, the mass killings of the Slavic population by the Nazis were crimes against humanity. Theory and method Pierre Nora and Lawrence Kritzman proposed a concept of two types of collective memory: minor memory and major memory. - World War II and the post-war years of the rule of Stalin - Liberalisation in the Soviet Ukraine during Khrushchev’s thaw and Gorbachev’s perestroika, - The post-1991 independent Ukraine
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