Kemény István Collection

Kemény István Collection 

Kemény István Collection 

The collection includes around two dozen interviews in which the Roma genocide is mentioned. The collection, which consists of 283 documents, is about the research that was done on the Roma communities in 1971. Most of the documents are transcriptions of interviews, but the collection includes some studies too. The interviews are based on discussions which were recorded on tape and later transcribed. When the participants in the project typed the material, their aim was to remain as faithful as possible to the original interviews, so the texts give one the impression of hearing the people speak in their own voices. Because the interviews were not broadly representative of the entire Roma population of Hungary, there are many interviews from some counties but fewer from others. Havas copied them and gave them to the Voices of the 20th Century Archive.