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Staff:
Governing Board:
| Ilija Jovanovic |
(Chairman) |
| Pera Petrovic |
(Deputy Chairman) |
| Mozes F. Heinschink |
(Financial
officer) |
| Renata M. Erich |
(Secretary) |
| Ljube
Radosavljevic |
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| Milan Mihajlovic |
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| Snezana Novakovic |
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| Rabije Perić-Jasar |
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DRAGAN JEVREMOVIĆ
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Dragan Jevremoviæ, born in Ibarska
Slatina, Serbia, on November 20, 1046, comes from a traditional
Kaldera¹ family. As a child he learned his father’s craft as
coppersmith and practised this until he moved to Austria in
1970. In Vienna he worked for many years as a plumber,
continuing to foster the traditional art of metal-working in his
spare time. When Romano Centro was established in 1991, he
devoted his time to the cause of conserving the culture and
language of his people and combating discrimination. |
ILIJA JOVANOVIĆ
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Ilija Jovanoviæ was born in Rumska near Belgrade, Yugoslavia. He
moved to Vienna in 1971. For many years now he has devoted
himself to writing, both in his mother tongue, the Romanes
dialect of the Gurbet, and in German. His poetry and prose deal
with the plight of his people and the hardships of his own
childhood, with the loss of the sense of belonging and of
community, the loss of bonds and one’s own language.His
bilingual volume of poetry “Bündel-Bud¾o” was published in 2000
by Eye Verlag Verlag.
www.geocities.com/nitg2000/roman.htm |
Honorary Member:
CEIJA STOJKA
Ceija Stojka is a long-standing member of Romano Centro’s Governing
Board. The 2003 General Assembly unanimously named her the first
Honorary Member in recognition of her unflagging efforts on behalf of
the Roma and her commitment to the cause of combating racism.
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Ceija Stojka was born in Styria on May 23, 1933, the fifth of six
children. She comes from a Lovara family which lived in Austria
since the 19th century and worked as horse
dealers and market vendors up to the outbreak of World War II.
Under the national socialists the entire Stojka family was
interned in various concentration camps. In 1941 Ceija and her
mother were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau, later to Ravensbrück,
Buchenwald and Bergen-Belsen. Most of her family were murdered.
Ceija survived. In 1945, after the war, she returned to Vienna,
where by her own efforts she went to school, became a market
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Her biography “Wir leben im Verborgenen” (“We Live Concealed”) was
published by the Viennese Picus Verlag (www.picus.at)
in 1988. She thus became the first Romni to publish her memories of
the life of the Lovara in Austria and the horrors of deportation to
the Nazi death camps. In 1992 she wrote a second book, “Reisende auf
dieser Welt” (“travellers Through this World”, Picus Verlag). Besides
writing, she also devotes her time to art, another medium for her
childhood memories. In addition, Ceija untiringly advocates the
interests of her people.
members.chello.at/ceija.stojka/index.htm
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