Gypsies in the Holocaust

Paper Summary:

This eight-page paper presents a detailed examination about the Gypsies in the Holocaust. The writer explores the genocide of the Gypsies and the fact that schools and others rarely teach or examine the plight of the Gypsies during that time as the Jewish plight is taught or explored. The writer argues that the Gypsies self-imposed lifestyle and distancing from society in general was the foundational reason for the "blind eye" when it came to what happened to them during the Holocaust.

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"The Gypsies of the world were also targeted by the Holocaust and were also the subject of rounding up and being killed. For the most part, classrooms rarely mention this fact as they look into the events of the time and the horrors that occurred. Experts have a hard time agreeing on a reason for the passing over of the genocide of the Gypsies in most classroom settings. When one begins to study the situation however, a pattern begins to form. Gypsies, by and large, shut themselves off from the rest of the world. Their very culture is about seclusion and withdrawal, and when one studies the treatment of the Gypsies during that time one can see how the current attitude of withdrawal came about."

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