Dramatic Photos

Another (overlooked) Nazi Victim

The Romani Genocide Exhibit

Romani victims of the Holocaust at Belzec Camp, newly arrived and awaiting instructions. * The mass murder of the Sinti and Roma people, called Gypsies or Romani, parallels closely that of the Jews. Hitler's Germany resolved The "Gypsy Plague" by a nearly successful attempt to exterminate them as a people. Who were the Romani? In Germany and Austria at the time of the Holocaust approximately 30,000-35,000 people belonged to the Romani ethnic minority. This group had migrated to Europe from northern India in around 1400 and was made up of many tribes. The popular collective term "Gypsies" refers to all of these tribes. * In September of 1942 a group of 200 Romani were transferred from Buchenwald to build the Gypsy camp at Birkenau. About 20,000 of the 23,000 Romani transported to Birkenau between 1942 and 1944 were killed there. * By the end of the war, between 70% and 80% of the Romani population had been killed by Nazis. * * * * * - from http://www.historywiz.com/roma-mm.htm "It is a terrible, an inexorable law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself." -- James Baldwin