Ceija Stojka was an Austrian-Romani writer, painter and musician, as well as a survivor of the Holocaust.
She was born in Kraubath an der Mur, Styria, the fifth of six children of a family of the Lovari caste. Together with her mother and four of the five brothers she survived the Holocaust and internment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Her father was killed by the Nazis.
After the end of World War II, the family saw the lack of acknowledgement of the Porajmos in Austria, the population's ignorance concerning this suffering and the continuation of some anti-Romani policies. The publication of her first autobiographic book in 1988, We Live in Seclusion. The Memories of a Romni made public the issues concerning the Nazi persecution of the AustrCeija Stojka was an Austrian-Romani writer, painter and musician, as well as a survivor of the Holocaust.
She was born in Kraubath an der Mur, Styria, the fifth of six children of a family of the Lovari caste. Together with her mother and four of the five brothers she survived the Holocaust and internment at Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. Her father was killed by the Nazis.
After the end of World War II, the family saw the lack of acknowledgement of the Porajmos in Austria, the population's ignorance concerning this suffering and the continuation of some anti-Romani policies. The publication of her first autobiographic book in 1988, We Live in Seclusion. The Memories of a Romni made public the issues concerning the Nazi persecution of the Austrian Romani people....more
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