Navigating Second Generation Memory and Auto/ biography in Home Video. A Video Collection of Hojda Stojka, Son of Artist and Survivor of the Porajmos Ceija Stojka

This paper investigates home videos made by Hojda Stojka, the son of Ceija Stojka (1933-2013), artist and survivor Auschwitz, Ravensbrück, Bergen-Belsen. Based on a close reading significant video sequences, narrative interview with videographer, Stojka’s publications films, it analyses how auto/biographical relate to persecution parents’ generation. The focuses importance spaces like kitchens, cars stages, value assigned audiovisual recordings, recontextualization integration photographs television recordings into family memory.