27/01/2026
Non-Jewish victims of Na**sm
On Holocaust Memorial Day, let us not forget the thousands of Non-Jewish victims of Na**sm.
Amongst them were Roma and Sinti people.
The Roma and Sinti had migrated from Asia to countries across Europe since the Middle Ages. When the N***s came to power in 1933, there were approximately 30,000 Roma and Sinti in Germany. They were wrongly considered to be racially ‘inferior’ by the N***s.
From 1933, laws were introduced to persecute Roma and Sinti. They were
sterilised
and had their civil rights taken away following the 1935 Nuremberg Laws. This meant they lost their right to be German citizens and marriages between Roma and non-Roma people was banned. In the summer of 1936, before the Berlin Olympics took place, around 800 Roma were arrested and imprisoned in a concentration camp just outside Berlin, called the Berlin-Marzahn camp.
Like Jewish children, Roma children were barred from going to school in 1941.
Following the invasion of the Soviet Union, the
Einsatzgruppen
moved into occupied land taken by the German army. They rounded up Roma and Sinti and shot them dead. 23,000 Roma and Sinti were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau, where many died due to the terrible conditions, with others sent to the gas chambers when they became too ill or weak to work. Historians estimate that around 21,000 of the 23,000 Roma and Sinti who were sent to Auschwitz were murdered there.
The N***s’
collaborators
also enabled the persecution of Roma and Sinti. For example, in France, the
Vichy government
rounded up 30,000 Roma and Sinti and imprisoned them. The majority were then sent to concentration camps. In Croatia, which was an ally of N**i Germany,
fascists
killed thousands of Roma and Sinti, as well as Jews and
Serbs
Historians estimate that around 220,000 Roma and Sinti were murdered by the N***s.
