But the answer to that question, at least for the Romani case, appears nowhere in any of the 23 essays the book contains. In their 1989 book Holocaust: Religious and Philosophical Implications, editors John Roth and Michael Berenbaum ask “hy should the fate of the Jews be treated differently than the fate of the Romanies or the Poles.he answer will be found in these essays” pp. Holocaust Memorial Council has been in existence, that body, more than any other, rigorously persists in underestimating and under-representing that truth, made plain forty-five years ago, a position reflected in the permanent exhibit in the Memorial Museum-whose staff, it should be said, have on the other hand generally been much more favorably disposed to the Romani case. survived ( Anon., 1950:18).ĭespite these very early observations 2, and despite the overwhelming amount of documentation relating to the fate of the Romanies in Nazi Germany which has been examined during the past fourteen years that the U.S. were thrown into concentration camps, and no more than 12 per cent. (Yates, 1949:455).Īnd in the following year, the Wiener Library Bulletin, organ of what is now the Jewish Institute of Contemporary History in London, published the statement that Germany had in 1938 a gipsy population of 16,275. The Romanies, like the Jews, stand alone. Both bear witness to the fantastic dynamic of the 20th century racial fanaticism, for these two people shared the horror of martyrdom at the hands of the Nazis for no other reason than that they were – they existed. Just four years after the fall of the Third Reich, Dora Yates, the Jewish secretary of the Gypsy Lore Society, noted in the pages of Commentary that It is more than time that civilized men and women were aware of the Nazi crime against the Romanies as well as the Jews. Alongside Jews, the Nazis murdered European Romanies." "Jews were not the only biologically selected target. the whole Gypsy 'problem' was for Himmler and most other Nazis only a minor irritant.” (Bauer, 1994:446) but Romanies were chosen by the Nazis for annihilation." From the casualties in our Civil War to the wholesale murder of Romanies in World War II."(Alexander, 1990:13) "'Holocaust' has been used to encompass more than the murder of the Jews. ignorance and arrogance are in full flower. 39-64 RESPONSES TO THE PORRAJMOS (THE ROMANI HOLOCAUST) 1 Ian Hancock
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