Transforming Holocaust Memory from a Minority Position: Exhibiting the Genocide of Roma and Sinti at the Lety Memorial in Czechia

This preprint of an article analyzes the permanent exhibition of the Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Bohemia in Lety, opened in 2024. It asks how the exhibition adopts and transforms the universalized Holocaust memory template described by Ljiljana Radonić. Drawing on exhibition analysis and comparison with the exhibition 'Extermination of Roma People' at Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum, it examines the categories of individualization, agency, visibility hierarchy, and the media through which these are produced. The article argues that Lety adopts the grammar of exhibiting Holocaust memory while reworking it from a minority position. Roma and Sinti memory is made visible through fragmented, community-based, and site-specific traces. The article argues that Lety memorial indicates one possible trajectory in the exhibiting of the Roma and Sinti genocide: from marginal inclusion within broader Holocaust narratives toward a site-specific memorial museum based on intermedial authentication of minority memory and its archives.