Rescue of Roma during the Romani Holocaust

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During World War II, some individuals and groups helped Romani people and others escape the Porajmos conducted by Nazi Germany.[1][2]

In Crimea, Crimean Tatars have been credited with helping the Crimean Roma during WWII.[3]

The Bosniaks from Zenica published a declaration stressing the special position of the so called White Gipsy/Bijeli cigo a sedentary Muslim Roma community, and with help of religious authorities in Sarajevo, the declaration influenced the Ustaše authorities to make a special provision in May 1942 to spare Muslim Roma residing in Bosnia and Herzegovina from deportation to the concentration camps to Jasenovac.[4]

References

  1. ^ Wawrzeniuk, Piotr (2018-07-03). ""Lwów Saved Us": Roma Survival in Lemberg 1941–44". Journal of Genocide Research. 20 (3): 327–350. doi:10.1080/14623528.2018.1461181. ISSN 1462-3528.
  2. ^ Bartash, Volha (2017). "Family Memories of Roma as Sources for Holocaust Studies - Insights from the Belarusian-Lithuanian Border Region". S:I.M.O.N. Shoah: Intervention. Methods. Documentation. 4 (2): 4–17. ISSN 2408-9192.
  3. ^ Tyaglyy, Mikhail (2009-03-01). "Were the "Chingené" Victims of the Holocaust? Nazi Policy toward the Crimean Roma, 1941–1944". Holocaust and Genocide Studies. 23 (1): 26–53. doi:10.1093/hgs/dcp015. ISSN 8756-6583. S2CID 143509247.
  4. ^ "Bosnia and Herzegovina". RomArchive.

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