Audio-visual interviews of Gypsy and Jewish victims of Nazi genocidal policy: Reflections on language, memory and narrative culture

In this article four interviews given by Jewish and gypsy survivors of the Holocaust are analysed with specific focus on the language used, differing narrative conventions and memory. The author concludes that the way they understand thier past, the history of the Third Reich and their own experience and that of others around them, how they frame their experience within the narrative tradition they are used to, with the vocabulary at their disposal differs considerably.