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Janna Eliot is of Russian, Armenian, and Romani descent. She is author of Spokes (2008), a selection of short stories about contemporary Romani life from World War II to the present day. She has written Settela's Last Road (2008), a fictionalised account of Settela, a 9-year old Dutch Sinti Romani girl who was sent to Auschwitz in 1944. She has translated (from Dutch into English) the book Settela (2005), written by Aad Wagenaar, who recounts his search for the identity of this same girl in the famous photograph that circulated throughout the world.The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (UK) has recommended Settela, Settala’s Last Road, and Spokes, for teaching and learning more about the Romani Porrajmos. Janna Eliot is also an active reviewer of Romani-authored works. She has reviewed Hedina Sijerčić's Like Water/Sar o Paj (2009, a bilingual English/Romani anthology of poems by Romani women), and Yvonne Slee's book Australia and Romanies (2011).
