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Narrative and counter-narrative<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"has-regular-font-size wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/sensiclass\/e-modules\/e-module2\/exercises-1\/exercise-3-forms-resistance\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Exercise 3: Forms of resistance<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"has-regular-font-size wp-block-navigation-item wp-block-navigation-link\"><a class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__content\" href=\"https:\/\/sisu.ut.ee\/sensiclass\/e-modules\/e-module2\/exercises-1\/exercise-4-importance-remembrance\/\"><span class=\"wp-block-navigation-item__label\">Exercise 4: Importance of remembrance<\/span><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div><\/nav>\n\n<h4>\n\tThe goal of this exercise<br>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tThis exercise aims at highlighting the importance of remembering, commemorating and understanding past atrocities for a better present and future. It focuses on Roma cultural manifestations of the past trauma.<br>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\tInstruction for teachers and students<br>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tIn the exercise art and music are discussed as forms of resistance. For in-class assignments, students need access to the internet and an electronic device (mobile phone, laptop or iPad) that they can use in class.<br>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\tMethods<br>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tShort questions and discussions regarding cultural forms of remembrance are used in this exercise. In particular, two cultural forms of remembrance will be discussed: paintings and music.<br>\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\tIntroduction<br>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tRemembering the Roma Holocaust, in general, is imperative to understand past injustices and recognize present forms of discrimination. Besides drawing lessons through remembering the Roma Holocaust, communal solidarity can be created through memorial artwork.<a href=\"#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a> Below, two forms of remembrance are presented below: paintings and music.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tFor more on the importance of commemorating and remembering the Roma victims, read a recent post by <a data-url=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/magazine\/forgotten-by-whom-why-its-more-important-than-ever-to-remember-the-roma-holocaust\" href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectmagazine.co.uk\/magazine\/forgotten-by-whom-why-its-more-important-than-ever-to-remember-the-roma-holocaust\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Sydnee Wagner published in the Prospect Magazine<\/a> about the importance of Roma Holocaust commemoration:\n<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\n\t\t\u00a0Consider the famous drawings below by Ceija Stojka (1933-2013) who was a Roma self-taught artist, and one of six children born into a family of nomadic horse-traders in Austria. She was deported as a young girl at age 10. Ceija Stojka<br>\u00a0\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\n\t\t\u201cturned the ordeals of the camps into an art of immense power. At 10, she was deported to Auschwitz, the first of three camps she would outlast. She slept on the pathway to the gas chambers, and hid among heaps of corpses; she survived by eating tree sap. In 1941, her father was deported to Dachau; he would later be murdered at what was euphemistically called a \u2018euthanasia center\u2019. (\u2026) Yet survivors themselves\u2026have forced themselves to make sense of the horrors they endured in art \u2014 and as Auschwitz recedes into historical distance and the last survivors disappear, there are voices even the greatest skeptic of representation cannot afford to tune out. For more than 40 years after the liberation she kept quiet about what she had withstood. Then it flooded out: scenes of rhapsodic childhood and unspeakable torture, painted with runny pigment and in brazen colors, impassioned, unashamed, irrefutable. She made more than 1,000 such paintings and drawings between 1990 and her death in 2013.\u201d<a href=\"#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\" title=\"\">[2]<\/a>\n\t<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>\n\t<br>Class discussion<br>\n<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tPlease think of sites of historical commemoration?\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tWhat are these sites and how are certain historical events commemorated?\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tCan drawings or paintings be considered as a site of commemoration? How?\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tLearn more <a data-url=\"https:\/\/www.romarchive.eu\/en\/collection\/ceija-stojka-1\/\" href=\"https:\/\/www.romarchive.eu\/en\/collection\/ceija-stojka-1\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">about Stojka from the RomArchive<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a data-url=\"https:\/\/www.ceijastojka.org\/artwork\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ceijastojka.org\/artwork\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">Look at Stojka\u2019s paintings<\/a>. Then each student selects one of paintings that describes the Holocaust and takes time to think about the picture and the feelings it evokes. Subsequently students try to construct a narrative about what the chosen paintings may mean. . \u00a0\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<h4>\n\t<br>Music as a site of commemoration<br>\n<\/h4>\n<p>\n\tSimilarly, music can be a site of commemoration, especially for the descendants of Roma Holocaust survivors. Consider Dr. Petra Gelbart\u2019s, a grandchild of Roma Holocaust survivors, <a data-url=\"https:\/\/mjhnyc.org\/blog\/expressions-of-roma-and-sinti-holocaust-remembrance\/\" href=\"https:\/\/mjhnyc.org\/blog\/expressions-of-roma-and-sinti-holocaust-remembrance\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">expressions of remembrance through music<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAfter watching the video, discuss the following questions:\n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n\t\tWhat kind of messages does this song contain?\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tWhy is music a site of commemoration?\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tWhat do you think about the lyrics and melody of this song?\n\t<\/li>\n<li>\n\t\tDo you know other songs about the Holocaust?\n\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tBased on the answers, the teacher may highlight how past events become part of cultures and are carried on from one generation to another. It is also important to emphasize that singing, painting and other forms of art use an international \u201clanguage\u201d \u2014 images, sounds and melodies \u2014 and therefore can speak to anyone, regardless of their culture or nationality. Importantly, Stojka called singing \u201cperformance of memory\u201d as songs call on past experiences. As a form of resistance, songs came in a form of \u201cbarely audible solitary singing\u201d or as \u201cloud singing\u2026 as a daring public expression of resistance\u201d (Grobbel, 2003 p. 144-145). In concentration camps, songs could provide a form of entertainment, to briefly escape from the reality of oppression, and also helped preserve culture and traditions (ibid.).\n<\/p>\n<div>\n\t\u00a0\n<hr size=\"1\">\n<div id=\"ftn1\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:10px\"><a href=\"#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\" title=\"\">[1]<\/a> See for example Anna Lujza Szasz (2014). \u201c<a data-url=\"https:\/\/visegradinsight.eu\/the-art-of-remembrance\/\" href=\"https:\/\/visegradinsight.eu\/the-art-of-remembrance\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">The Art of Remembrance. Artistic strategies to remember the Roma Holocaust<\/a>\u201d. Visegrad Insight. <\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"ftn2\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span style=\"font-size:10px\"><a href=\"#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\" title=\"\">[2]<\/a> Source of text: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/27\/arts\/design\/ceija-stojka-auschwitz-paintings.html\">https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/01\/27\/arts\/design\/ceija-stojka-auschwitz-paintings.html<\/a>.<\/span>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The goal of this exercise This exercise aims at highlighting the importance of remembering, commemorating and understanding past atrocities for a better present and future. 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