Roma Artist Ceija Stojka: What Should I Be Afraid Of? (Buhmann Stephanie)(Pevná vazba)

The first English monograph on the artist Ceija Stojka, an Austrian Roma writer, painter, activist, musician, and survivor of the Holocaust. What Should I Be Afraid of? presents the work of Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), an Austrian Romni writer, painter, activist, musician, and survivor of the Holocaust. Beginning in the 1980s, Stojka created over a thousand drawings and paintings, whose subjects range from landscapes and recollections of her happy, prewar existence as part of a large horse-trading family to the mounting oppression of the Roma under the Nazi regime. Having survived the three concentration camps Ravensbrck, Bergen-Belsen, and Auschwitz as a child, Stojka left behind an oeuvre depicting her personal experience of arrests, exterminations, survival, and liberation, which was shared by millions. In addition to four scholarly essays, this book presents important
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