ROMA HOLOCAUST - forgetting the victims

'Roma, commonly but inaccurately called Gypsies, were the only other population besides the Jews who were targeted for extermination on racial grounds in the Final Solution.'

Ian Hancock, Genocide of the Roma in the Holocaust

How many people today are aware that the Roma as a group was as much a victim - if not more so, proportionately - of the Nazi experiment as were the Jews? And how many people today would put their hands on their hearts and say that we should remember this for ever?

The shocking tragedy for those Roma who died as well as for those who miraculously survived, is that their suffering has not just been forgotten by humanity, it has been deliberately forgotten. We have not recognised their victimhood, we have hardly even acknowledged it, and we have done almost nothing to try to compensate - if that were ever possible. Worst of all, we have done nothing to prevent them from becoming victims all over again of exactly the same hatred and blind prejudice that drove the Nazi killers.

Nuggets to try to jog our non-existent memories...

See them all together here