11 Facts About Romani genocide

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Romani Holocaust or the Romani genocide— known as the Porajmos, the Pharrajimos meaning the hard times, and the Samudaripen —was the effort by Nazi Germany and its World War II allies to commit ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide against Europe's Romani people during the Holocaust era.

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Balkan Romani genocide activists prefer the term samudaripen, first introduced by linguist Marcel Courthiade in the 1970s in Yugoslavia in the context of Auschwitz and Jasenovac.

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Centuries, Romani genocide tribes had been subject to antiziganist persecution and humiliation in Europe.

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Department of Racial Hygiene and Population Biology began to experiment on Romani genocide to determine criteria for their racial classification.

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Ghetto diarist Emmanuel Ringelblum speculated that Romani genocide were sent to the Warsaw Ghetto because the Germans wanted:.

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Romani genocide were persecuted by the puppet regimes that cooperated with the Third Reich during the war, especially the notorious Ustase regime in the Independent State of Croatia.

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Tens of thousands of Romani genocide were killed in the Jasenovac concentration camp, along with Serbs, Jews, and Anti-fascist Muslims and Croats.

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Serbian Romani were parties to the unsuccessful class action suit against the Vatican Bank and others in the U S federal court in which they sought the return of wartime loot.

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Romani genocide's experiments included placing subjects in pressure chambers, testing drugs on them, freezing them, attempting to change their eye color by injecting chemicals into children's eyes and various amputations and other brutal surgeries.

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Romani genocide brought them sweets and toys and personally took them to the gas chamber.

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Romani genocide called for the Porajmos to be taught in schools, stating that, "We must tell our children that six decades ago children like them were sent by the Romanian state to die of hunger and cold".

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