{"product_id":"a-people-destroyed-new-research-on-the-roma-genocide-1941-1945-hardback-9781496234537","title":"A People Destroyed; New Research on the Roma Genocide, 1941–1945 (Hardback) 9781496234537","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eA People Destroyed\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eNew Research on the Roma Genocide, 1941–1945\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAnton Weiss-Wendt (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496234537\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 1 August 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e350 pages, 13 photographs, 2 illustrations, 5 maps, 4 tables, index\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e“This is a truly impressive collection of articles by a diverse and dogged group of scholars. Anyone who studies or teaches about the Holocaust has long awaited such a volume and will applaud its publication. The scholarship is of a high quality, and the need is great.”-Eliyana R. Adler, coeditor of \u003ci\u003eJewish and Romani Families in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA People Destroyed\u003c\/i\u003e features the most recent work on the Roma genocide in Europe during World War II. Despite the murder of a substantial part of the Romani population in various countries and occupied territories, it took historians more than half a century to collect enough evidence to establish the fact of genocide. Even today the public remains largely unaware of the extent of suffering that the Nazis and some of their allies inflicted on the Roma.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA People Destroyed\u003c\/i\u003e shows that the Nazis most consistently murdered Roma in the German-speaking countries and the occupied Soviet territories, while Fascist Croatia attempted its own “Final Solution of the Gypsy Question.” The history of persecution that Roma people endured in Europe laid the foundation for the Nazi policy of extermination.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Anton Weiss-Wendt and the contributors to the volume, who come from nine different countries, build on existing Holocaust scholarship in their discussion of policy implementation, racial ideology, and the shared experiences of Jews and Roma. Meticulously analyzing diverse primary sources such as perpetrator documents and war crimes trial records, witness testimonies, population data, and contemporaneous newspaper reports and oral interviews, \u003ci\u003eA People Destroyed\u003c\/i\u003e provides a comprehensive overview of the destruction while focusing on the individual experiences of the victims.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e List of Tables\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e Anton Weiss-Wendt\u003cbr\u003e 1. “\u003cbr\u003eHe Knew Things about Us, Gypsies”\u003cbr\u003e: Documenting the May 1940 Deportation of Karlsruhe Sinti through the Records of the Racial Hygiene Research Center\u003cbr\u003e ThÉ\u003cbr\u003eophile Leroy\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Deportation of Sinti and Roma from Flensburg on May 16, 1940: Prehistory, the Ordeal, and the Struggle for Compensation and Prosecution\u003cbr\u003e Sebastian Lotto-Kusche\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Internment Camp for Sinti and Roma at Berlin-Marzahn: Everyday Life, Persecution, and Deportation\u003cbr\u003e Patricia Pientka\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Deportation of Roma from Belgium via the Dossin Transit Camp, 1942–\u003cbr\u003e44: Prehistory and Consequences\u003cbr\u003e Laurence Schram\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Fate of a Man, the Destruction of a People: Zolo Karoli and the Persecution of the Norwegian Roma, 1921–\u003cbr\u003e45\u003cbr\u003e Maria Schwaller-Rosvoll\u003cbr\u003e 6. Agency in the Destruction of the Roma in German-Occupied Serbia: Victims, Perpetrators, Rescuers\u003cbr\u003e Milovan Pisarri\u003cbr\u003e 7. Means of Survival of the Romanian Roma Deported to Transnistria\u003cbr\u003e Petre Matei\u003cbr\u003e 8. The Lemberg Paradox: The Nazi Persecution of Roma in the District of Galicia\u003cbr\u003e Piotr Wawrzeniuk\u003cbr\u003e 9. Ethnography of Mass Murder: The Destruction of the Roma in Nazi-Occupied Estonia\u003cbr\u003e Anton Weiss-Wendt\u003cbr\u003e 10. Mapping the Genocide of Roma in Ukraine, 1941–\u003cbr\u003e44\u003cbr\u003e Mykhaylo Tyaglyy\u003cbr\u003e 11. Autobiographies of Romani Holocaust Survivors: Literary Expressions of Persecution and Survival\u003cbr\u003e Katrin KÜ\u003cbr\u003ehnert\u003cbr\u003e 12. The Number of Romani Deaths during the Nazi Era Revisited\u003cbr\u003e Anton Weiss-Wendt\u003cbr\u003e Contributors\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52685416857880,"sku":"9781496234537","price":50.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/a-people-destroyed-new-research-on-the-roma-genocide-1941-1945-hardback-9781496234537","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}