The Forgotten 5 Million Non-Jewish Victims Of The Holocaust

Up to 1.5 million Roma Gypsies were rounded up and killed by the Nazis, a genocide known as the “Porajmos” in their language.

Kit O'Connell
作者 Kit O'Connell
An elderly man passes by pictures showing aspects of Romanian Roma community life, and Roma personalities in the world, among them Charlie Chaplin, during an event at the Holocaust Memorial in Bucharest, Romania, Thursday, Jan. 27, 2011. Scores of Romanian Gypsies perished during WWII deportations in the Dniestr region 65 years ago.

AUSTIN, Texas --- According to most figures, about 6 million Jews died at the hands of the Nazis and their supporters in the Holocaust, one of the most disturbing examples of genocide in human history. But the Nazis took around 11 million lives, leaving another 5 million dead that are all too often overlooked or forgotten when in discussions of

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U.N. Calls For Action On European “anti-‘Gypsy’” Discrimination

“It is due time for our societies to stop tolerating any public discourse that perpetuates stereotypical, racist, hateful or discriminatory views about Roma, and take effective action against such discourses. We must reject anti-Gypsyism in all its forms.”

Josh Butler
作者 Josh Butler

Roma women expelled from France sit on the pavement at a Bucharest airport in Otopeni, Romania, Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012. (AP/Vadim Ghirda) UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations rapporteur for minorities has anti-Roma and anti-‘Gypsy’ bias in her sights. Apr. 8 marked International Roma Day, and United Nations Special Rapporteur on Minority

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French Politician’s Racist Remarks Tap Growing Xenophobic Sentiment In Europe

French MP Gilles Bourdouleix was recently reported as saying, “Maybe Hitler didn’t kill enough” of the Roma.

Jo Erickson
作者 Jo Erickson

Faced with a growing trend of vigilantes forcibly burning Roma camps and evicting Roma travelers, French politicians this week stirred up far-right groups like the National Front and Movement for France with more hateful rhetoric and racial discrimination.  While touring a Roma traveler site in the town of Cholet, French MP Gilles Bourdouleix was

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