Some Russian and Balkan Romani activists protest against the use of the word porajmos. [14] In various dialects, porajmos is synonymous with poravipe which means "violation" and "rape", a term which some Roma consider offensive.

May 31, 2018 · During the Porajmos, the Nazis exterminated a quarter of Europe's Roma (a.k.a. Gypsies), yet this brutal genocide went unacknowledged for decades. A quarter of their entire population was wiped out — and they didn't get the acknowledgment they deserved until 2011.

Nov 15, 2024 · However, another devastating chapter of the Holocaust—the Porajmos, or “The Devouring”—remains less acknowledged in the broader narrative of World War II history. This term, used by some Romani communities, refers to the genocide of the Romani people at the hands of the Nazi regime and its collaborators.

The Romani genocide, known as the Porajmos, was the planned and attempted effort, during World War II by the Nazi German government to exterminate the Romani, Gypsy, people from Europe.

Jul 24, 2023 · During World War II, the Nazis and their allies and collaborators perpetrated a genocide of European Roma. They shot tens of thousands of Romani people in occupied eastern Poland, the Soviet Union, and Serbia. They also murdered thousands more Roma from western and central Europe in killing centers.

Oct 23, 2024 · German authorities murdered tens of thousands of Roma in the German-occupied territories of the Soviet Union and Serbia and thousands more in the killing centers at Auschwitz-Birkenau, Chelmno, Belzec, Sobibor, and Treblinka.

What is Porajmos, and what does it mean? During the period of 1939-1945, European Roma were persecuted and killed under Nazi Germany’s attempt to rid the country of “racial inferiority”.

Cuvântul „poraimos” (scris „porajmos” în altă ortografie) înseamnă „devorare”, iar „samudaripen” înseamnă "ucidere în masă” în limba romani [7]. [necesită citare]

Jul 29, 2022 · The Porajmos: The Nazi Genocide Forgotten by the world. Today marks the 78th anniversary of the liquidation of the Zigeunerlager (Gypsy Camp) at Auschwitz. A day when 2,897 Roma and Sinti men, women and children were murdered in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz extermination camp.

Das Romanes-Wort Porajmos [pʰoɽajˈmos] (auch Porrajmos, deutsch: „das Verschlingen“) bezeichnet den Völkermord durch die Deutschen an den europäischen Sinti und Roma in der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus.