Rudolf Murka
Substitute
He comes from a family of Czech and Moravian Roma and Sinti. His father Rudolf went through concentration camps in Dachau, Buchenwald and Terezín. He managed to survive as well as his brother Antonín, who escaped from the so-called Gypsy camp in Hodonín u Kunštátu and went underground. He actively participated in the anti-Nazi resistance in East Moravia (for example, he participated in the liberation of Vizovice in early May, 1945). Other family members from the mother's or father's side died in Lety u Písku or other concentration camps in Europe. He has been dedicated to collecting documents, photographs and all information regarding the fate of his family members. In these and other aspects of the documentation and research of the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti, he cooperates with the Museum of Romani Culture and other institutions and researchers and actively advocates the dignified commemoration of the Roma Holocaust victims.
