Who are the Roma? Formerly known as “gypsies,” Roma experienced their own Genocide by the Nazis during World War II. This genocide is called the Porajmos, meaning “the devouring.” Learn more with this selected reading list by our librarian, Ryan Woodward:
Remembering the Roma Genocide
Bury Me Standing: The Gypsies and Their Journey (1995) by Isabel Fonseca ISBN-13: 978-0679406785
Gypsies under the Swastika (1995) by Donald Kenrick and Grattan Puxon ISBN-13: 978-0900458651
Shared Sorrows: A Gypsy Family Remembers the Holocaust (2002) by Toby Sonneman ISBN-13: 978-1902806105
The Pariah Syndrome: An account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution (1987) by Ian Hancock ISBN-13: 978-0897200790
Germany and its Gypsies: A Post-Auschwitz Ordeal (2002) by Gilad Margalit ISBN-13: 978-0299176747
Pharrajimos: The Fate of the Roma During the Holocaust (2008) by Janos Barsony ISBN-13: 978-1932716306
The Gypsies of Eastern Europe (1991) ed. by David Crowe and John Kolsti ISBN-13: 978-0873326711
And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of the Gypsy Holocaust (1986) by Alexander Ramati ISBN-13: 978-0531150283 (Historical Fiction)
The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies (2000) by Guenter Lewy ISBN-13: 978-0195125566
The Holocaust in Romania: The Destruction of Jews and Gypsies Under the Antonescu Regime, 1940-1944 (2008) by Radu Ioanid ISBN-13: 978-1566637718
The Nazi Genocide of the Roma: Reassessment and Commemoration (2013) by Anton Weiss-Wendt ISBN-13: 978-0857458421
Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh 