Emil, the son of Josef, leader of a nomadic group of Coppersmith Gypsies in Czechoslovakia, lives an idyllic life until the Nazis invade the country and send the gypsies to live in a labor camp. Urged by his mother to escape, Emil is helped by an old friend of his father's and returns to find his mother has been sent to Auschwitz.
Focuses on the treatment of the gypsies of Europe by the Nazis during World War II and addresses the questions of when they were actually interned in the camps, deportation, and extermination.
the destruction of Jews and Gypsies under the Antonescu regime, 1940-1944
Ioanid, Radu
2000
Draws from previously hidden archival records, reports, memoirs, and letters to provide information about Romanian policies of racism, anti-Semitism, and the extermination of Jews in Romania during the regime of Ion Antonescu.
Discusses Nazi Germany's efforts to create a so-called master race by attempting to eliminate not only the Jewish race, but also killing or sterilizing Poles, Russians, gypsies, homosexuals, the mentally handicapped, and others considered inferior.
