And never, never forget pojramos. imho, this was as bad or worse than the holocaust.
Thanks to both of you for the information and hints. I had to look up “Pojramos”:
The period of totalitarian regimes marked the most tragic episode in the history of the Roma: the Holocaust (Pojramos, ‘the devouring’ in Rromani language), which saw the death of more than half of the Roma population in Europe.
The Porrajmos, literally “the Devouring,” is the term that the Roma use to describe the Nazi regime’s attempt to wipe their people off the face of the Earth; for the genocidal wave of terror known to most of the world as the Holocaust. An estimated half million Roma were killed during the Second World War — only five percent of the Czech-born population survived.