ŽOFI Z-4515 (ŽOFI Z-4515)

Winter 1942. The carefree childhood of Žofi, a Romani girl, has just come to a premature end. Before the war, she and her parents and siblings travelled through Poland, earning a living through traditional professions such as fortune telling and horse trading, but now they are forced to hide from the Nazis in the forests around Warsaw. When someone from the local community reports them, the family of six ends up behind the barbed wire of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. Žofi's left arm is marked by the tattooed number Z-4515, she loses her name and soon all her loved ones...

The bilingual edition consists of eighty pages arranged on either side of the volume – forty pages of the Czech version on one side and forty pages of the Romani version on the other.

Translated from Swedish by Marie Voslářová, and from Kalderash to Slovak Romani by Markéta Hajská and Iveta Kokyová.

This book has been published thanks to the kind financial support of the Ministry of Culture and the State Culture Fund of the Czech Republic.