Oral history - The National Center for Roma Culture

Oral history - The National Center for Roma Culture 

Oral history - The National Center for Roma Culture 

The oral archive contains interviews recorded on various audiovisual formats 

The collection includes about 60 oral history interviews which relate to the Roma deportations to Transnistria. Between 2007 and 2019, various Roma activists, such as Delia Grigore and Adrian Furtuna, interviewed about 60 Roma survivors of deportations in Transnistria. The interviews were conducted as part of various projects and under the umbrella of several Roma organizations. Most of the interviews were conducted by the"Romane Rodimat" and Amare Romentza (two Roma NGOs based in Bucharest). However, in recent years the activity of the National Center for Roma Culture (CNCR) has become much more visible. The latter is a public institution under the National Agency for Roma and coordinated by the General Secretariat of the Romanian Government. The National Center for Roma Culture has the task of preserving, developing and promoting the cultural heritage of the Roma. By funding various Roma cultural activities, it has been able to attract collaborators of older projects, including those dealing with oral history. CNCR-RK therefore serves as an interface that brings together also these Roma projects on oral history.