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Ceija Stojka
Ceija Stojka (23 May 1933 – 28 January 2013) was an Romani people in Austria, Austrian Romani writer, painter, activist, and musician, and survivor of the Holocaust. Life Stojka was born in Kraubath an der Mur, Styria, in 1933 as the fifth of six children to mother Maria "Sidi" Rigo Stojka and father Karl "Wackar" Horvath.French, L.. (2008). An Austrian Roma Family Remembers: Trauma and Gender in Autobiographies by Ceija, Karl, and Mongo Stojka. ''German Studies Review'', ''31''(1), 68. Two of her brothers, Karl "Karli" Stojka and :de:Mongo Stojka, Johann "Mongo" Stojka, were also writers and musicians. The family were Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Lovari, Lovara Roma, members of the Bagareschtschi clan on their father's side and Giletschi clan on their mother's side. The Stojkas were horse-traders whose caravan spent winters in Vienna and summers travelling through the Austrian countryside, where the family could trace their heritage for over 200 years. Together with her m ...
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