{"id":9004,"date":"2025-10-31T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/?p=9004"},"modified":"2025-10-29T11:36:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T08:36:54","slug":"romdiem-voices-ljuan-koko-how-do-we-preserve-what-was-silenced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/romdiem-voices-ljuan-koko-how-do-we-preserve-what-was-silenced\/","title":{"rendered":"ROMDIEM Voices: Ljuan Koko – How do we preserve what was silenced?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Memory, Research, and the Need for Roma Remembrance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How do we preserve what was silenced?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an interview for the ROMDIEM <\/a><\/strong>project, Ljuan Koko<\/strong> \u2014 political scientist and author of the documentary \u201cAnd You, God, Survive\u201d \u2014 speaks about decades of silence surrounding the Roma Holocaust and the urgent need to reclaim Roma historical memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the first to record living Roma survivors from Jasenovac, Koko captured rare testimonies that reveal both tragedy and resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cRoma were killed just because they were Roma. The intent was to leave them without even a grave \u2014 to disappear without a trace.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He recalls how his film was banned, and how the topic itself was long considered taboo. \u201cIt was all covered by brotherhood and unity,\u201d he says, describing the institutional silence that erased Roma victims from collective memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, Koko calls for international research, education, and memorial spaces to restore dignity to Roma victims. Among his proposals is planting a Tree of Remembrance at the former Staro Sajmi\u0161te camp \u2014 \u201ca living monument, where the strength of memory lies in the roots of our people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe have neither names, nor numbers, nor evidence. We have silence. And now, when we try to speak, many still do not hear us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview by Una Beri\u0161a, June 12, 2025, Belgrade<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Learn more about the project here: https:\/\/romdiem.eu\/<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Memory, Research, and the Need for Roma Remembrance How do we preserve what was silenced? In an interview for the ROMDIEM project, Ljuan Koko \u2014 political scientist and author of the documentary \u201cAnd You, God, Survive\u201d \u2014 speaks about decades of silence surrounding the Roma Holocaust and the urgent need to reclaim Roma historical […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[87],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9004"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9007,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9004\/revisions\/9007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cube.org.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}