Romani Genocide, 1939-1945

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Name (Hebrew)
השמדת צוענים במלחמת העולם השנייה
Name (Latin)
Romani Genocide, 1939-1945
Name (Arabic)
إبادة الغجر الروم، 1939-1945
Other forms of name
Baro Porrajmos, 1939-1945
Gypsy Holocaust
Nazi persecution of Romanies
Romani Holocaust
Genocide of the Romanies, 1939-1945
Nazi persecution of Romanies, 1939-1945
Pharrajimos, 1939-1945
Porajmos, 1939-1945
Porrajmos, 1939-1945
Romani Holocaust, 1939-1945
Romany Holocaust, 1939-1945
Romany Genocide, 1939-1945
nne Romanies
Samudaripen, 1939-1945
nne World War, 1939-1945
See Also From tracing topical name
Persecution
Genocide
Romanies Crimes against
World War, 1939-1945 Atrocities
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

Wikidata: Q117571
Library of congress: sh 85148419
DLC: sh 85148419
LIBRARY_OF_CONGRESS: 98172584520000041
Sources of Information
  • WWW, May 26, 1998(usage in titles retrieved by AltaVista search: Nazi persecution of Gypsies; Gypsy Holocaust)
  • Work cat: Hancock, I. F. Jewish responses to the Porrajmos (the Romani Holocaust), 2015
  • Barsony, J. Pharrajimos: the fate of the Roma during the Holocaust, 2008
  • Right to remember : a handbook for education with young people on the Roma genocide, 2014
  • Weiss-Wendt, A. The Nazi genocide of the Roma, 2015
  • OSCE human rights chief welcomes declaration of official Roma genocide remembrance day in Poland, 29 Jul. 2011, via Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe website, viewed Jun. 8, 2021 ("Roma and Sinti Genocide Remembrance Day"; "Roma and Sinti genocide")
  • Klopčič, V. Porajmos : zamolčani genocid nad Romi = Porrajmos : the withheld genocide of the Roma, 2015
  • Porrajmos : E Roma seron, kon perdal zhuvinde = Roma Holocaust túlélők emlékeznek = Recollections of Roma Holocaust survivors
  • Dawson, R. Never forget : a photographic supplement to the Romani Holocaust, 2014
  • Hancock, I. The Romani genocide during the Holocaust, in Time for reparations, 2021 (OCLC 1245249485)
  • O Samudaripen. Holocaustul Romilor : România. Deportarea romilor în Transnistria, Marturii, documente = Samudaripen. The Roma Holocaust : Romania. The deportation of the Roma to Transnistria. Testimonies, documents, 2016
  • Romani genocide, via Wikipedia, viewed Jun. 8, 2021(The Romani genocide or the Romani Holocaust--also known as the Porajmos (meaning "the Devouring"), the Pharrajimos ("Cutting up", "Fragmentation", "Destruction"), and the Samudaripen ("Mass killing")--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)
  • Tebbutt, S. Between distance and proximity : film images and after-image of the Genocide of the Romanies, in Framework, v. 44, no. 2 (2003)
  • Google search, Jun. 8, 2021(Porrajmos 129,000 results; Porajmos 102,000 results; Genocide of the Roma 123,000 results; Samudaripen 69,500 results; Romani Holocaust 12,600 results; Romani Genocide 7,990 results; Roma Genocide 20,600 results; Roma Holocaust 35,800 results; Pharrajimos 6,810 results; Genocide of the Romanies 3,190 results; Roma and Sinti Genocide 1,350 results)
  • Open Society Foundations. Voices web site, viewed July 15, 2021(Parrajmos: Remembering Dark Times; For too long the fate of the Roma, who perished at the hands of the Nazis, their allies and collaborators, had been neglected. In too many accounts, the Baro Porrajmos (Great Devouring) of Europe's Romani people, which claimed the lives of more than 500,000 victims, was relegated to the footnotes, if indeed mentioned at all)
  • Holocaust Encyclopedia; viewed online July 15, 2021(4 entries entitled: GENOCIDE OF EUROPEAN ROMA (GYPSIES), 1939--1945)