(Poems of the Romany Holocaust)
By Paul Polansky
LIVING THROUGH IT TWICE is a book I find myself carrying around with me and taking out to read at every opportunity. It is always heart wrenching to read tales of the Porraimos, it is especially painful in its relevance to conditions of the Romani in Europe today.
If we really believe it when we say 'NEVER AGAIN', we must speak out against the current genocide against the Romani people.
Paul Polansky is an untiring friend to the Roma/Sinti. He has spent the past years writing, speaking, advocating for the Romani living on the lead mines in Kosovo.
Nais tukay
We thank you phral Paul.
Now, I quote two reviews of Living Through It Twice.
"Paul Polansky's chilling testimony of the concentration camp in Lety by Pisek is all the more frightening since it's presented in such a conversational tone. It records the testimonies of those Romanies who survived the Lety camp or the recollections of their children....hold onto your hats, this ride'll freeze you to the bone."
Ivan M. Jirous
"Paul Polansky's spare, stark renderings of Romany survivors' voices have the hardness of memorial stone. But in reading them, the stone dissolves and something infinitely tender and unspeakable takes its place. The restraint and hardness hold in the tears-just barely. The Romany Holocaust, the Czech Romany Holocaust, the denial of it by the Havel government, the repetition of history today-these unknowns are thrown into sharp relief by Polansky's unblinking gaze. When we see what he sees, we no longer have an excuse to avert our eyes."
Andrei Codrescu
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