Gypsies in the Holocaust

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Gypsies in the Holocaust

• Sinti and Roma Gypsies
• By Joy Mistovich

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Gypsies during the 15th Century

• A nomadic people living in Europe from the 15th
  Century, Gypsies were singled out for persecution
  by the Nazis. Because they were not Jews, the
  Nazis did not feel a need to kill all of them.

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Persecution of Roma (Gypsies)

• German
• Gypsies
• Were
• Deported
• To the
• East

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Gypsies of the Holocaust

• Roma, as they preferred to be called, were an
  ethnic group that originated from India.Their
  language is Romany, and for this reason, they
  lived a wandering lifestyle. In this photograph,
  Gypsy children are moving to another
  concentration camp.

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• Germans thought of Roma as inferiors, and they
  were starved and worked to death. Those who fell
  sick or became crippled were shot. Some were
  deported to the Lodz ghetto. Others were sent to
  the Gypsy Family Camp located in
  Auschwitz-Burkina. Entire families were
  incarcerated together. Of the 1 million Roma
  living in Europe, up to 220,000 were killed.

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• Marzahn, the first internment camp for Roma
• (Gypsies) in the Third Reich.
• Germanydate uncertain

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• Many Gypsies were brought by caravan to a
  transit camp. A transit camp was a place where
  Gypsies were temporarily held to go to
  concentration or death camps.

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• In this image a Gypsy mother and her child are
  about to be taken to a transit camp.

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• A group of Gypsies about to be gassed in
  Belzec extermination camp .

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During the time of the Holocaust 250,000 Gypsies
were killed.
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Gypsies being marched
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• Heinrich Himmler, chief of the SS and the
  German police, wished to exempt two tribes of
  Gypsies at first, but that all changed in 1942.
  He signed a decree for all Gypsies to be shipped
  to Auschwitz. At Auschwitz they were subjected to
  everything, like medical experiments and
  extermination. Gypsies perished in Dachu,
  Mauthausen, Ravensbrueck and other camps.

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Medical Experiments on Gypsies

• Many Gypsies had medical experiments done on
  them. They were conducted by Dr. Josef Mengele.
  One of these experiments was for Gypsy women and
  men to be sterilized. This meant that Gypsy woman
  were not able to bear children. Hitler wanted to
  rid Germany of the Gypsies. Later this was also
  done to the Jews.

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Gypsy Monument- Memorial of War

• In memory of the
• Sinti and Roma
• victims of the
• Nazi genocide.
• Location.. Amsterdam
• There are many other
• memorials in honor
• of the Gypsies.