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The Memoirs of Ceija Stojka, Child Survivor of the Romani Holocaust is the first English translation of these memoirs.

"Is this the whole world?" This question begins the first of three memoirs by Austrian Romani writer, visual artist, musician, and activist Ceija Stojka (193...

Malmö Konsthall opens an exhibition of 140 drawings and paintings by Roma artist Ceija Stojka Ceija Stojka, Landleben, 1993. Acrylic on cardboard, 50 x 64,5 cm © Collection Patricia & Marcus Meier, Wien. MALMO .- Roma artist Ceija Stojka (1933–2013) was born and raised in Styria in Austria, where her family made their living as traders. Following Nazi Germany’s annexation of Austria in 1938, her family was persecuted, arrested, and sent to the concentration camps. Stojka was barely ten years old when she arrived at Auschwitz. She survived three concentration camps: Auschwitz-Birkenau, Ra...