Holocaust: The ‘Devouring’ of the Czech Roma

A staggering 95 percent of the Czech-born Romani and Sinti population perished in the war, most through extrajudicial killings

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Brian Kenety | 27.01.2011
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Some 22,000 Roma and Sinti were killed at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The unidentified young woman above arrived at the death camp on Oct. 10, 1943, and was assigned the number Z-63598 (with the ‘Z’ signifying she was Roma, or ‘Zigeuner’ in German)

The Porrajmos, literally “the Devouring,” is the term the Romani people use to describe the genocidal wave of terror known to most of the world as the Holocaust. Nearly  every Romani man, woman and child who survived internment in Czech-run camps later perished at Auschwitz-Birkenau before the Nazi death camp was liberated by the Soviet Army, 66 years ago today.

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Radical.Ron|18.02.2011 - 07:42

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