1. THE HOLOCAUST!
http://www.ukemonde.com/holocaust/victims.html
http://www.iearn.org/hgp/aeti/aeti-1997/roma-in-holocaust.html
The Holocaust took place from January 30, 1933- May 8, 1945. During this time over 11
million people were killed, 6 million of those was Jews. The holocaust was not just a Jewish
event, records kept by Germans prove that they exterminated millions of communists like
Gypsies, Czechs, homosexuals, Jehovah’ witnesses, Mental and Physical Handicapped people,
Russians, prisoners of war and many others that we may never be able to identify. At the
concentration camps they had 6 penal categories. Regular criminals wore green, asocials,
(slackers, prostitutes, procurers etc.). wore black, political prisoners wore red, Jewish wore
yellow, homosexuals wore pink, and conscientious objectors wore purple to all be easily
identified.
Between 200,000 and 500,000 Gypsies were killed in the holocaust. In the camps, Gypsies
were forced to wear black triangular patches which classified them as "asocial” or green
triangles which identified them as professional criminals. They were used for medical
experiments before heading into the concentration or extermination camps. At
Sachsenhausen, they were subjected to special experiments that were supposed to prove
“scientifically” that their blood was different from German blood. The Romani often called
gypsies were usually blamed for things other groups did. For example looting (stealing) gold
teeth from the bodies of the dead Jews, other groups usually blamed the gypsies. Gypsy

2. women were usually the Germans “guinea pigs.” Many of these women were sterilized
because they “weren’t worthy” for human reproduction. At first Romani women that were
married to the Germans were not sent to camps but instead they were sterilized, as their
children had to be over the age of 12. Later these women and children were also sent to
camps, but it wasn’t just the Romani in Germany that had to worry about these things.
Gypsies from all over the world were being deported and sent to Auschwitz and places where
other camps took place. Tens of thousands of these humans died on the way to the camps
from starvation and diseases. In the trains they had no room to move, often people had to sit
or stand on one another. Those who died would often be sat on. If you fell asleep on the floor
chances were you weren’t going to wake up because someone suffocated you by sitting on
your face. You had to fight your way to survive.