Mongo Stojka
Johann Mongo Stojka (born May 20, 1929 in Guntramsdorf ; † March 16, 2014 ) was an Austrian carpet dealer, musician and author. Stojka was a Rom from the Lovara tribe . He was the father of jazz guitarist Harri Stojka . His siblings were Ceija and Karl Stojka . His parents still lived in the traditional way with horse-drawn carts.
He survived the Auschwitz-Birkenau , Buchenwald and Flossenbürg concentration camps . Of his family of around 200 people, only six survived the genocide of the National Socialists ( Porajmos ) . For many years he could not talk about this time. It was only his son Harri who convinced him to tell about his life, which he did first for the Shoah Foundation founded by Steven Spielberg , then also in his book Paper Children. Happiness, destruction and a new beginning of a Roma family in Austria (2000) did. In 1999 Mongo Stojka planted a chestnut tree on the site of the former camp site of traveling Roma, the "Hellerwiese". The small park was renamed Barankapark in 2003 after Stojka's grandmother .
Johann Mongo Stojka was buried in the Neustift cemetery (group L, row 10, number 27) in Vienna.
Works
- Mongo Stojka: Paper children. Happiness, destruction and a new beginning for a Roma family in Austria. Molden, Vienna 2000, ISBN 3-85485-045-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Mongo Stojka in the catalog of the German National Library
- History of the Lovara Stojka family
Individual evidence
- ↑ Musician and author Mongo Stojka has passed away , accessed on March 19, 2014
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stojka, Mongo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stojka, Johann Mongo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian Holocaust survivor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Guntramsdorf |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 16, 2014 |