Question

( 100 POINTS ) JUST NEED INFO ON A GROUP FROM THE HOLOCAUST ( besides jews ) LABLED BELOW IN (,) FOR " your essay topic "

Your essay topic: Investigate the fate of a select group of Holocaust victims (Roma, Poles, communists, mentally/physically disabled, etc..) as a historical process.

Develop a timeline plotting the history of the antagonism (hostility or opposition) toward this group, culminating (ending) in the Holocaust.

Topics to think about: Define the group of Holocaust victims: Who are they exactly and how did they identify them?

Historically, have there been other times when the select group has been targeted by hate groups, discrimination, or prejudice?

Why were they targeted by the Nazis?

What was life in the concentration camps like for this group of individuals?

(Your research may not have all the answers and that's ok)

Answer 1

“Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau. On 2 August 1944, 2 897 persons were taken to the gas chambers and exterminated. Only a few months earlier, on 16 May 1944, the detainees of the “Gypsy camp” had refused to obey the orders of the SS soldiers who had come to kill them. Knowledge about both the Roma uprising and the liquidation of the “Gypsy camp” remains limited in European societies today.

entered Europe between the eighth and tenth centuries C.E. They were called "Gypsies" because Europeans mistakenly believed they came from Egypt. This minority is made up of distinct groups called "tribes" or "nations."

the Gypsies also were targeted for extinction by the Nazis. The Gypsies as a people survived the campaigns directed against them in large measure because they were located in areas under the control of governments allied with Germany. These governments generally refused to participate in the extermination of the Gypsies (just as some did not participate in the destruction of the European Jews). The majority of the Gypsy population in Axis Europe was beyond the direct control of the Nazi extermination machinery and, as a consequence, survival rates were higher.

Explanation: I really hope this helps probally not i am only a 7th grader but i tried