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Porajmos refers to the systematic murder and persecution of Roma people during the Holocaust and World War II, particularly by Nazi Germany and its allies. Understanding this genocide matters because it represents a largely overlooked chapter of Holocaust history and highlights the widespread violence Roma communities faced across Nazi-occupied Europe.
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Key facts
- Location
- German-occupied Europe
- Date
- 1939–1945
- Target
- European Roma
- Attack type
- Genocide , ethnic cleansing , mass murder , starvation , mass shooting , concentration camps , death camps
- Deaths
- 130,000 250,000 - 500,000 1,500,000
- Perpetrators
- Nazi Germany and its allies and collaborators , Vichy France
- Motive
- Antiziganism , Germanisation , Pan-Germanism , Racism , Nazi racial policy
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Article
Stephanie Holomek, a Roma victim of the Holocaust.The Romani Holocaust was the genocide of European Roma and Sinti people during World War II. Beginning in 1933, Nazi Germany systematically persecuted the European Roma, Sinti and other peoples pejoratively labeled "Gypsy" through forcible internment and compulsory sterilization. German authorities summarily and arbitrarily subjected Romani people to incarceration, forced labor, deportation and mass murder in concentration and extermination camps.
Under Adolf Hitler, a supplementary decree to the Nuremberg Laws was issued on 26 November 1935, classifying the Romani people (or Roma) as "enemies of the race-based state", thereby placing them in the same category as the Jews. Thus, the fate of the Sinti and Roma in Europe paralleled that of the Jews in the Holocaust. Historians estimate that between 250,000 and 500,000 Romani and Sinti were killed by Nazi Germans and their collaborators.