The Heroic Present: Life among the Gypsies

Jan Yoors was born in Antwerp, Belgium; trained as a sculptor in Brussels; and became an acclaimed tapestry artist and weaver in New York. He is the author of The Gypsies and Crossing: A Journal of Survival and Resistance in World War II.

Ian Hancock was born in England of British and Hungarian Romani descent and has been active in the Romani movement since the 1960s. He is professor of Romani studies and director of the Romani Archives and Documentation Center at the University of Texas at Austin.