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My Gypsy Mother
"In the past people knew that my mother was a gypsy. Then came the foreign workers and she became a 'Tschusch'. That was probably her luck." My Gypsy Mother is a film about the relationship between a daughter and her mother. The mother is Sinti and survivor of the concentration camps, Ravensbrück and Buchenwald. Her life-story influenced her relationship to her children. While the father, as a former member of the Waffen-SS, lived in Germany, she raised her children in Vienna. The mother and the daughters' relations with the Sinti, has become a confusion between the roots and renunciation.
The daughter and the camera is the mediator and the provocator. In respect to the history of the family, the story of Gypsies becomes perceptable as a permanent exclusion. The wall of silence throughout the childhood of the daughter, became a barrier between survivors and their offsprings. The history of the Gypsies is a history of exclusion and discrimination. The film, My Gypsy Mother, shows the consequences of the NS-persecution for the survivors, and the influence on their children.
FILME: Emigration, NY | Leon Askin | Matura | Intifada
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