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The Romani Holocaust or the Romani genocide was the planned effort by Nazi Germany and its World War II allies and collaborators to commit ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide against European Roma and Sinti peoples during the Holocaust era.
During World War II, the Nazis and their allies and collaborators perpetrated a genocide of European Roma. They shot tens of thousands of Romani people in occupied eastern Poland, the Soviet Union, and Serbia. They also murdered thousands more Roma from western and central Europe in killing centers. Key Facts. 1.
Feature. The Roma Holocaust. Europe’s Roma were the victims of Nazi genocide during the Second World War, but their persecution did not end in 1945. Celia Donert | Published in History Today Volume 72 Issue 2 February 2022.
In Nazi Germany, its occupied territories and its allied states between 1935 and 1945, Romani groups—who were already subject to a long history of discrimination—experienced forms of intensified harassment, internment, exploitation, and persecution, culminating in mass murder.
An Effort to Focus on Long Overlooked Roma Suffering in the Holocaust - The New York Times. As many as a half million Romani people were killed by the Nazis, according to one estimate. A new...
1 of 5 Collections in. Belonging and Exclusion: Reshaping Society under Nazi Rule. Roma and Sinti in Nazi Germany. This collection explores how the persecution of Roma and Sinti became increasingly radical and deadly as the Nazi regime transformed Germany to fit Nazi ideas of race and national unity.
Sometimes known as the “Forgotten Holocaust,” the Roma Genocide was excluded from the history of World War II for decades after the end of the war. There were no Roma witnesses at the Nuremberg Trials.
