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| Neculai Burghelea - Romania | Neculai Burghelea was a witness to crimes based on ethnic discrimination when he was a teenager and was arrested in 1948 for crimes against the State. His story documents instances of religious discrimination and political oppression as well as human rights violations. (Interview: CESI)
Neculai Burghelea a fost martor la crime bazate pe discriminarea etnică atunci când era adolescent. Acesta a fost arestat în 1948 pentru crima de uneltire împotriva Statului. Povestea sa documentează discriminarea religioasă și opresiunea politică, precum și încălcări ale drepturilor fundamentale. (Interviu: CESI)
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| Moica Niculina - Romania | Moica Niculina was officially arrested for political reasons in 1959 (when she was only 15 years old) by the communist authorities for being the member of a youth group which allegedly protested against the regime in power at the time. Her story documents political oppression but also gender discrimination. Traditionally, female ex-political convicts were discriminated against more than men. This had a destructive impact on her life after being released from prison. (Interview: CESI)
Moica Niculina a fost arestată oficial din motive politice în 1959 (la 15 ani), de către autoritățile comuniste ale vremii, invocându-se apartenența sa la o organizație de tineret anticomunistă. Povestea sa documentează opresiunea politică, dar și violența și discriminarea de gen. În mod tradițional, deținuții politici de gen feminin erau mult mai discriminați decât cei de gen masculin. Această situație a avut un efect distructiv asupra vieții sale după eliberarea din închisoare. (Interviu: CESI)
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| Gelu Duminică - Romania | Gelu Duminică is an activist for Roma rights and a sociologist. His story documents the deportation of several members of his family during the late 1940s following the racial laws passed by the Antonescu regime in Romania. (Interview: CESI)
Gelu Duminică este activist pentru drepturile persoanelor de etnie romă și sociolog. Mărturia sa documentează deportarea mai multor membrii ai familiei sale în urma legilor rasiale de la sfârșitul anilor 1940 sub regimul Antonescu în România. (Interviu: CESI)
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| Maria Trionfi - Italy | Maria Trionfi, daughter of General Alberto Trionfi, retraces the events that led to her father's deportation and execution in the Skokie concentration camp in 1944. Despite difficulties and personal threats, Maria Trionfi tells how, with the help of Simon Wiesenthal and some oral witnesses, she managed to reconstruct the events that led to her father's capture and murder. (Interview: Luigi Sturzo Institute)
Maria Trionfi, figlia del generale Alberto Trionfi, ripercorre le vicende che portarono alla deportazione e all'esecuzione del padre nel campo di concentramento di Skokie nel 1944. Nonostante le difficoltà e le minacce, Maria Trionfi racconta come, grazie all'aiuto di Simon Wiesenthal e di alcuni testimoni orali, sia riuscita a ricostruire gli eventi che portarono alla cattura e all’uccisione del padre. (Intervista: Istituto Luigi Sturzo)
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| Gennaro Spinelli - Italy | Gennaro Spinelli is the President of the Roma and Sinti Community in Italy. In his interview, he denounces the persistence of discrimination and stigma towards his community of origin, claiming that 83% of the Italians have “negative feelings” about Roma and Sinti people. In Spinelli’s view, although much has changed since the time of the racial laws and deportation, much remains to be done to ensure that concentration camps of yesterday are not replaced by nomadic camps of today. (Interview: Luigi Sturzo Institute)
Gennaro Spinelli è il presidente della Comunità Rom e Sinti in Italia. Nell'intervista denuncia il persistere di discriminazioni e stigmatizzazioni nei confronti della sua comunità d'origine, sostenendo che l'83% degli italiani nutre "sentimenti negativi" nei confronti di rom e sinti. Secondo Spinelli, anche se molto è cambiato dai tempi delle leggi razziali e della deportazione, molto resta da fare per evitare che i campi di concentramento di ieri siano sostituiti dai campi nomadi di oggi. (Intervista: Istituto Luigi Sturzo)
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| Nadia Cremascoli Bencich - Italy | Nadia Cremascoli Bencich tells the story of her grandfather Santo Bencich who, as an opponent of the regime, had participated in the strikes in the Breda factories in Milan, which at that time had been converted into arms factories. Nadia tells about his capture, in the presence of her mother who was a child at the time, and his deportation to Mauthausen in 1944. This episode profoundly marked the life of her mother, who decided to dedicate her whole life, and the one of her daughter Nadia, to solidarity and the struggle for freedom. (Interview: Municipality of Cinisello Balsamo)
Nadia Cremascoli Bencich racconta la storia di suo nonno Santo Bencich che, da oppositore al regime, aveva partecipato agli scioperi nelle fabbriche della Breda a Milano, che in quel periodo erano state convertite in fabbriche d'armi. Nadia racconta della sua cattura, alla presenza di sua madre che all'epoca era una bambina, e la sua deportazione a Mauthausen nel 1944. Questo episodio ha segnato profondamente la vita di sua mamma, che ha deciso di dedicare tutta la sua vita, e quella di sua figlia Nadia, alla solidarietà e alla lotta per le libertà. (Intervista: Comune di Cinisello Balsamo)
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| Jánosi Katalin - Hungary | Katalin Jánosi (born 1951) is the granddaughter of Imre Nagy, daughter of Ferenc Jánosi, a descendant of prominent figures of the 1956 revolution. Like the other children of the revolutionary politicians, she was interned in Snagov, Romania, and later had to grow up under the Kádár regime. The events of 1956 also limited her (see her career choice), but thanks to her empathetic environment she avoided many atrocities. This also influenced her view of Hungarian society. (Interview: Imre Tarafás, ELTE)
Jánosi Katalin (*1951) Nagy Imre unokája, Jánosi Ferenc lánya, vagyis az 1956-os forradalom prominens szereplőinek leszármazottja. A forradalom politikusainak többi gyerekéhez hasonlóan ő is a romániai Snagovba került internálásra, majd a Kádár-rendszer keretei között kellett felnőnie. Az 1956-os események korlátozták is (lásd a pályaválasztását), de empatikus környezetének köszönhetően sok atrocitást elkerült. Ez a magyar társadalomról alkotott képét is befolyásolta. (Interjú: Tarafás Imre, ELTE)
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| Vásárhelyi Mária - Hungary | Mária Vásárhelyi (born 1953) was also a Snagov child, the youngest of them all. Her father, Miklós Vásárhelyi, was also a victim of the Kádár reprisals as a member of the Imre Nagy government, although he received the most lenient sentence, which he did not have to serve in full. Mária speaks about her own experiences and her father's life, as Miklós Vásárhelyi after his release from prison had a varied career in the Kádár era, and eventually paved the way for the end of the communism as a pillar of the opposition. (Interview: Péter Csunderlik, ELTE)
Vásárhelyi Mária (*1953) is snagovi gyermek volt, a legfiatalabb mind közül. Édesapja, Vásárhelyi Miklós a Nagy Imre-kormány tagjaként szintén a kádári megtorlás áldozatává vált, habár a legenyhébb büntetést kapta, amit nem is kellett teljesen letöltenie. Mária saját élményeiről, illetve apja életéről beszél, hiszen Vásárhelyi Miklós börtönből történő szabadulását követően változatos pályát futott be a Kádár-korszakban, hogy végül az ellenzék egyik oszlopos tagjaként a Rendszerváltást is előkészítse. (Interjú: Csunderlik Péter, ELTE)
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| Hajdu Tibor - Hungary | Tibor Hajdu started working in a party institution during the years of the communist takeover. Here he had the opportunity to meet people who knew about the Stalinist purges, as well as followers of Stalinist politicians. His career was also influenced by the show trials. He also experienced the 1956 revolution in a special status: as a reformist, but not as a revolutionary. In his recollection of this professional beginning, he provides a unique insight into the Rákosi era (and, in part, the Stalinist dictatorship). Thus, the internationally renowned researcher of the Hungarian Republic of Councils and Mihály Károlyi recounted politically discriminatory experiences in his personal experiences. (Interview: Péter Csunderlik, ELTE)
Hajdu Tibor a kommunista hatalomátvétel éveiben kezdett el dolgozni egy pártintézményben. Itt a sztálini tisztogatások ismerőivel, illetve a sztálinista politikusok követőivel is megismerhetett. Karrierjét a kirakatperek is befolyásolták. Az 1956-os forradalmat is egy különleges státuszban: reformpártiként, de nem forradalmárként élte meg. Ezen szakmai kezdet visszaemlékezésében különleges látásmódot biztosít a Rákosi-korszakra (és részben a sztálini diktatúrára). A Magyar Tanácsköztársaság és Károlyi Mihály nemzetközileg is elismert kutatója így személyes élményei kapcsán politikai alapú diszkriminatív élményekről mesélt. (Interjú: Csunderlik Péter, ELTE)
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| Szekeres-Varsa Vera - Hungary | Vera Szekeres-Varsa (born 1933) is the descendant of an intellectual family of Jewish origin. She and her parents survived the Holocaust in Budapest, in the International Ghetto and later in hiding under a pseudonym. She was in high school when she had to leave her apartment, and during the siege of Budapest she hid with her family near the headquarters of an Arrow Cross group. What she saw had a lasting impact on her life and made her forever committed to the fight against discrimination. (Interview: Imre Tarafás, ELTE)
Szekeres-Varsa Vera (*1933) egy értelmiségi, zsidó származású család sarja. Szüleivel Budapesten, a Nemzetközi Gettóban, majd pedig álnéven bujkálva élte túl a Vészkorszakot. Gimnáziumba járt, amikor el kellett hagynia lakását. Budapest ostroma alatt egy nyilaskeresztes csoport székhelye mellett bujkált családjával. A látottak örökre befolyásolták életét, örökre elkötelezték a diszkrimináció elleni harc mellett. (Interjú: Tarafás Imre, ELTE)
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