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To: thegagline

Provide the readers with who the “ Romani” were. As I recall, that was a collective name for “gypsies” (who consisted of at least two main groups and whose names I cannot recall except for something like “Satti” and “the other possibly the “Romani”).

Most books on the Holocaust use the generic term “Gypsies” but I found two references about their fate at the hand of the Nazis (they killed at least 200,000 “gypsies”).

They are : “Encyclopedia of the Holocaust”, section ‘Gypsies’,, pp. 634-638; and “The Destiny of Europe’s Gypsies”, Donald Kendrick and Grattan Paxon, New York, Basic Books, 1972.

Foot note 83 for p. 311 in Daniel Goldhagen, “Hitler’s Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust”, softback, Vintage Books/Random House, NY 1997.

any information you could provide would be very useful to
FR readers esp. historians/researchers, like myself.

I lost my European family in the massacre at the sandpits in Lemberg, about 1942, with any survivors sent to their deaths at Belzec concentration camp and Auschwitz.


12 posted on 04/10/2021 10:53:12 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

We aren’t supposed to use the term “Gypsies,” anymore, as “Roma” or “Romani” are terms supposedly approved of by the people themselves. I do not know who determines these things.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani_people


26 posted on 04/11/2021 7:20:01 AM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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