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 Jana Horváthová  (born on March 22, 1967 in Brno, Czech Republic), born  Holomková, is  Czech historian, historian, museologist, and ethnografer of Roma origin who is the Director since 2003 of the Museum of fRomani culture in Brno. Since 2018, the Museum of Romani Culture also administers the Lety u Pisku and Hodonín u Kunštátu Romani Holocaust memorials (source: https://www.rommuz.cz/o-muzeu/o-nas-2/ ). Jana Horváthová is a member of the Czech Government Council for Roma Minority Affairs. (source in Czech:  https://www.vlada.cz/cz/ppov/zalezitosti-romske-komunity/clenove/ )

Jana Horváthová was born to a well-known Moravian Roma family. Her grandfather was the first Roma to graduate from a university in the Czech lands. (source: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/jana-horvathova-affirmative-action-and-inclusion-will-solve-the-situation-of-roma-in-the-czech-republic ) Her father Karel Holomek (source on Czech Wiki: https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karel_Holomek ) is a leading Czech Roma intellectual, activist and politician (a Member of Czech National Council in 1990-1992). She herself got briefly involved in politics, after the Velvet Revolution of 1989, when she assisted in establishing of the Romani Civic Initiative political party. (source: http://www.romea.cz/en/news/czech/jana-horvathova-affirmative-action-and-inclusion-will-solve-the-situation-of-roma-in-the-czech-republic ) In 1990’s, she also worked as script editor and consultant in the public Czech Television. (source: https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/about-us/meet-our-graduates/jana-horvathova )

She studied history and museology at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno, Czech Republic. (source: https://blog.romarchive.eu/?page_id=994 ) Her diploma thesis was on Roma history.

In her academic work, she focuses on the history of the Roma in the first half of the 20th century. She often uses oral history in her work related to the Roma who came to Czech lands in the late 17th century and their descendants, many of whom perished in the Romani Genocide during World War II. (source: https://blog.romarchive.eu/?page_id=994 )

She published “Kapitoly z dějin Romů. Chapters from the History of the Roma” (Prague, 2002) which is often used as a secondary school textbook. (source: https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/about-us/meet-our-graduates/jana-horvathova ) She also published “Devleskere čhave. The testimony of old postcards” (Poprad, 2006). (source: https://blog.romarchive.eu/?page_id=994 )