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Abstract
Pharrajimos, the Romani Holocaust, has been one of the most gruesome events in the history of the Romani people. This study explores the Romani strategies of resistance to the Nazi persecution during the Second World War. James C. Scott’s study of the Zomia people, in his The Art of Not Being Governed, examines how self-governed peoples implement features of their lifestyle to evade oppression. These features include: mobility, orality, solidarity and adaptability. In his Domination and the Arts of Resistance, Scott theorizes about the disparity between the public transcript and the hidden transcript, and explores the domain of infrapolitics as a chief strategy of resistance adopted by those in subordinate position. At a deferred moment of resistance, infrapolitics shift to the domain of public resistance. The thesis engages Scott’s argumentation in analyzing four texts: János Bársony and Ágnes Daróczi’s Pharrajimos: The Fate of the Roma During the Holocaust (2007), Alexander Ramati{u2018}s And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of the Gypsy Holocaust (1986), Aaron Yeger{u2018}s A People Uncounted (2011) and Michelle Kelso{u2018}s Hidden Sorrows: Persecution of Romanian Gypsies during the Holocaust (2005).The analysis examines how the Roma resorted to culturally specific features of their tribal lifestyle, and produced a domain of infrapolitical resistance during the Holocaust, in order to survive. Additionally, they shift from the domain of infrapolitics to that of a declared public resistance at a later moment after the culmination of the Holocaust, reclaiming their voice and asserting their existence as a culturally specific group of people whose history of resistance informs their identity