LUDOVIT PETIK
The interview was recorded at the Documentation and Information Center for Roma Culture of the State Scientific Library in Presov. For Mr. Petik’s family, World War II brought resistance, persecution, and displacement. While his grandfather was a known musician, his father joined the Slovak Army I Liptovsk Mikulas, and later partisans, leading to his capture and forced labor in Germany, followed by a long journey home after Berlin’s liberation. Relatives remaining in Slovakia were compelled to build a road for the German army. As Roma, the family endured severe restrictions, including being violently barred from cities, and were forcibly relocated from the center of their village of Razñany to its outskirts.
