Shared Sorrows: A Gypsy Family Remembers the Holocaust

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On the morning after Kristallnacht, Toby Sonneman’s father walked through broken glass to apply for the visa that saved him from the fate of so many during the Third Reich. In examining her own family history, the author discovered the similarities between the fate of the Jews and the Gypsies in the Holocaust, both peoples selected on racial grounds for extermination by the Nazis.

She traveled with an American Gypsy survivor to Munich, where she stayed with the formidable Rosa Mettbach. This is the story of Rosa and other members of an extended family who survived the Holocaust. Shared Sorrows tells the story of a Gypsy family against the backdrop of a Jewish one, detailing and examining their shared sufferings under the Nazis.

My father brought a spool of thread with him from Germany when he came to America in 1939. And another spool of thread, one in my imagination, unwinds slowly and unpredictably, sometimes fraying or tangling. It's a thin and delicate thread that leads me to the Gypsies, to the family that I meet in Germany, the country of so many tangled memories and emotions. And as I talk to them and I listen, following the threads of their stories backwards in time to the 1930s and 40s and before, their memories start to become mine as well.

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The courage of conscience.......2002-11-19

Shared Sorrows is a breath-taking, exquisite book. Sonneman's quest begins as a personal one, revealing her courage in asking what happened to the Gypsies in the Holocaust, as she had earlier understood her own Jewish family's fate. I was awed by her conscience and courage in listening and recording the heart-rending replies. The truthful, brutal answers left tear stains on more than one page as I read. But Sonneman's reporter's voice and writer's heart were precisely what allowed me to face all that she heard. She brings her readers into a universe of unspeakable memories because we must all remember. And she shows us that we must honor these memories because the universe is still capable of love and luck and -- always -- conscience. It is a powerful and important book no reader will soon forget.

Finding Meaning in Memories.......2002-11-14

Shared Sorrows weaves the history of the Nazi persecution of Gypsies into a families' personal narratives, recounted in a manner as gripping as any novel. Rosa Mettbach, the main character, tells a story of nearly-unspeakable injustice and personal courage. She escapes from the Nazis four times, each time punished more harshly yet surviving several concentration camps. Sonneman evokes shockingly rich memories of the sounds of the camps, the smells of burning flesh, the ash constantly in the air, of awakening each morning with lice swarming about one's head.

What makes this book more than a horror story is its humanism. Rosa the heroine is also a chain-smoking grandmother who indulges in her own prejudices. The author decribes in mouth-watering detail the pastries she and Rosa eat while awaiting the right time for an interview. Sonneman examines the complexity of her own reaction upon visiting places her Jewish family was forced to leave and meeting Germans who stayed. The people living in the town of Dachau must have heard and smelled something of what was going on in the concentration camp at the edge of town. Were they complicit or just paralyzed with fear? One is left pondering not just a remarkable oral history, but human nature itself.

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And the Violins Stopped Playing...WOW!

And the Violins Stopped Playing

And the Violins Stopped Playing: A Story of the Gypsy Holocaust
Alexander Ramati
Manufacturer: Franklin Watts
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And the Violins Stopped Playing...WOW!.......2004-07-21

This is a MUST book to read to understand Holocaust.

Back in 1997, I used this book as a source for my History researching term related to Gypsy Holocaust. I have been to Holocaust Museum, only for library about five times. Never been to the museum itself. I read this book...very hooked! This Gypsy, Roman, is a wonderful storyteller. I was so hooked from the beginning to the end. As I reached the end of the book, I cannot finished my term on time...why? I cried and cried and cried nonstopped for three days! You do not need to go the Holocaust Museum. This *IS* your visiting to "Holocaust Museum".

Like the other reviewers, this is AWESOMED and very powerful book. It has everything you need to know: Jews, Doctors, Nazi, Aucshwitz, Gypsy, and more! The most interesting charactor is Dr. Mengele. I am really SHOCKED that I liked him very much as I read this book. Really! He was the likeable doctor (!!!!)even Roman himself liked him. But He was cruelest doctor I have ever read about. The way Roman described Mengele, you have to read this book to understand. I will never forgot one part the Dr. Mengele like to put up on his wall. This is real horror. I still have nightmare from that part. Read and find out.

The way Nazi treated the Gypsy was awful! Even they knew that the Gypsy are the true Arayan. Based on my researching, the Gypsy is the most tragic group in Europe, before, during and after the Holocaust. It has a huge impact on any reader as it did on me. After I read, now I have really respect the Gpysy. They are true survivors.

By the way, it does has a happy ending.

Enjoy the book!

And the Violins Stopped Playing.......2000-03-14

A great book about World War II, is a great story about the gypsies, who are not known for there suffering. I will tell you I hate reading books unless they are extremly intresting, and let me tell you, this book is Awesome with a capital "A" baby. There is a great love story too. If you can't buy it here, check your local library. The name sounds really corny, but after you read it, you will want to give Alexander Ramiti a Pulitzer.

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A fuller picture of persecution in WWII
Witnesses to War
History through the eyes of those who were there as children
Victims Who Are Seldom Heard

Witnesses to War
Michael Leapman
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For millions of children, living in Europe during World War II was a terrifying experience. This book tells the true stories of eight of those children. Each tale is different-living in the Warsaw Ghetto, being sent to concentration camps, being selected for "Germanization"-but each represents the story of millions of other innocent victims whose lives were cut short or changed irrevocably by the Holocaust.

"Sad and compelling." -The Horn Book

"An authoritative, informative and attractive work. The narrative is riveting." -VOYA

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Best book ever!.......2003-02-14

When I read the book "Witnesses To War" I couldn't put the book down. I was disgusted by the true Nazi persecution. The book is about collections of the true life stories during the holocaust and the Nazi persecution . One of the stories I liked the best was about the Polish children being tested for Germanization because it was twisted that the Nazi's could capture a child .The parents were helpless. I liked this book a lot because I am interested in the holocaust . It's well written and makes you want to read more aobut the holocaust.

A fuller picture of persecution in WWII.......2002-09-29

I was impressed by this book because it presents the suffering of people in WWII without staying completely focused on the Jews. The Nazis were willing to murder anybody, who, for any reason, did not fit in to their ideology or view of the world. With this book, there is a more clear demonstration of that - yes, a couple of the stories are about Jewish children, there is also a story concerning the plight of a Polish child, one about a gypsy girl, and a child's view of the horrendous occurence at Lidice, Czechoslovakia. The stories about the Jewish children are also varied; one escaped via the Kindertransport, one story was about girls hidden in a convent, and another whose father was featured in a very famous photo that made it out of Germany to tip people off to the kinds of things happening there.

My main gripe about the book is fairly minor. I enjoyed the pictures and the background given to each story, but every once in awhile I felt that the text was patronising. Mind you, this is targeted towards a juvenile audience, but if one believes that the children that will be reading this book are mature enough to deal with this type of material, they probably are not in too terrible need of some of the simpler explanations, and I found these a bit distracting from the focus of the text.

Overall, it is a very good book that serves a subject that is often neglected.

Witnesses to War.......2001-12-03

The book I read was Witness to War by Michael Leapman. This book was about eight true-life stories of children that were sent to concentration camps, and others who the Germans tried to make into German citizens. The German police and army shipped off some kids to different places so they did not get caught. A lot of the Jewish people that got sent to camps were well-respected people in a society of German. Most of the people in this book are Jewish but one of the kids is a gypsy. I think this book was very good. It is very odd that people can treat others so cruel.

History through the eyes of those who were there as children.......1999-12-30

I picked this book up from my local book store with great curiosity. I am doing a History GCSE and am especially interested in WW2, and how it affected everyday people like myself. This book looks at the war through the eyes of children. Not only Jewish children but Polish and Gypsy children too. Some parts of the book drew tears to my eyes. I was shocked at some of the horrific things these children endured. I noticed when reading the details about this book, that it is supposed to be suitable for children aged 9-12 years old. I my self am 15 and the other review writer is in college. I have a younger brother aged 11 and I do not think that this book would be appropriate for him! Some of the text would be too difficult for someone his age and a lot of the things mentoined he would not understand (I doubt if he even knows what a concentration camp is! ). Also some of the things talked about are a little too advanced for his peer group. To say I thouroughly enjoyed the book makes me sound slightly morbid, but it was a deeply touching book. Poeple who have read THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK will most likely find this of interest also.

Victims Who Are Seldom Heard.......1999-05-31

I read this book and I thought it was quite interesting... I'm a History major in college and one of my fields of expertise is World War II. I really appreciated this book because it covered some things I've always been curious about, such as Germanization and victims who were not Jewish, but victimized because they were "physically unfit" or "racially impure." You hear very little about the terror of Germanization because until recently, almost non of the Germanized children spoke about it at all. Non-Jewish victims had trouble too because either they were employed in jobs that were censored (art and religion to name a few) or because they were handicapped or because they were members of little-known cultures. The Holocaust should never be forgotten! Never! I am a quarter Polish. My grandma was born in Poland but came to America in 1922. I've always been glad that we got out of Europe long before the war ever started. What would've happened to us?

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It was Genocide
Worthy of praise
One of the only books on the subject
Hitler's other victims
Denying Genocide

The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies
Guenter Lewy
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press, USA
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ASIN: 0195142403

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Roaming the countryside in caravans, earning their living as musicians, peddlers, and fortune-tellers, the Gypsies and their elusive way of life represented an affront to Nazi ideas of social order, hard work, and racial purity. They were branded as "asocials," harassed, and eventually herded into concentration camps where many thousands were killed. But until now the story of their persecution has either been overlooked or distorted. In The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies, Guenter Lewy draws upon thousands of documents--many never before used--from German and Austrian archives to provide the most comprehensive and accurate study available of the fate of the Gypsies under the Nazi regime. Lewy traces the escalating vilification of the Gypsies as the Nazis instigated a widespread crackdown on the "work-shy" and "itinerants." But he shows that Nazi policy towards Gypsies was confused and changeable. At first, local officials persecuted gypsies, and those who behaved in gypsy-like fashion, for allegedly anti-social tendencies. Later, with the rise of race obsession, Gypsies were seen as a threat to German racial purity, though Himmler himself wavered, trying to save those he considered "pure Gypsies" descended from Aryan roots in India. Indeed, Lewy contradicts much existing scholarship in showing that, however much the Gypsies were persecuted, there was no general program of extermination analogous to the "final solution" for the Jews. Exploring in heart-rending detail the fates of individual Gypsies and their families, The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies makes an important addition to our understanding both of the history of this mysterious people and of all facets of the Nazi terror.

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It was Genocide.......2007-08-26

I purchased this book with great expectations when Oxford University Press published it in 2000; unfortunately, I have found upon reading it (at long last), it leaves much to be desired. So much so that I couldn't help wondering whether the authors who signed their names to rave accolades on the dust jacket of the hardbound edition even read the entire book.

For starters, Lewy's explanation of the Roma's "mysterious" 13th to 14th century arrival in Europe is completely laughable. Yes, as Lewy notes, the Roma originated in India. But there, his accuracy ends. Rom myths alone cannot explain their history of traveling (nor could mythology of any people be cited as historical fact).

As K.S. Lal has noted in his books on the Muslim conquest of the subcontinent(Legacy of Muslim Rule in India and Muslim Slave System in Medieval India), it was Islamic practice to subject entire conquered populations to slaughter and mass deportation as slaves--and India's Muslim conquerors deported millions of Indians as slaves--as well as destroying tens of thousands of Hindu temples and building mosques over their ruins.

Equally important, as Ian Hancock has so ably noted in his scholarly works on the Roma (e.g., Pariah Syndrome: An Account of Gypsy Slavery and Persecution and We Are the Romani People: Volume 28 (Interface Collection)), they were slaves for 500 years in Europe before their liberation in the 1840s. Thus laws that prosecuted them for practicing traditional trades, traveling in caravans, camping on the edges of towns, and so forth, were hardly limited to Bavaria, and had roots in the statutes that originally governed Roma slaves--which closely resemble the Islamic Shar'ia laws governing all non-Muslims, or dhimmis, that is, second class persons.

Unfortunately, Lewy mentions none of this important history or context--all of which should be included in any scholarly work on the Nazi genocide of the Roma.

Like another reader here, I too had to force myself to read this book--not, surprisingly, due to the horrific Nazi deeds that targeted Europe's Roma people. Rather, I was physically repulsed by the author's emotionless tone, and his sterile, heartless prose, which generally accepts without comment, Nazi terminology to describe these persecuted people.

It would be understandable, for example, to refer to the Nazi term, "work-shy," frequently used to describe the Roma in the early 1930s, while at the same time rejecting it. But Lewy so often repeats this derogatory epithet (and others of similar quality and intonation)--without comment or dispute--that this reader began to believe early on, Lewy seems to sympathize with the oppressors, and would himself have followed racist Nazi policies to the T.

Another serious problem is the assumption that the occasional Nazi release of Rom prisoners somehow made the persecution of Roma any less Genocide than it was. Of course, however, in the early 1930s, when these Rom prisoners were occasionally released, Jewish prisoners were also occasionally released. And the Holocaust was nevertheless the Holocaust.

This is not to say that the Nazi genocide of the Roma (what they term the Porajmos, or Devouring) was on the same scale as the Holocaust, or Shoah, of the Jewish people. The Nazis were clearly not so focused on the extermination of any other people as the Jews--of whom they destroyed roughly two thirds of the European population, and one third of the world's population.

Nevertheless, I find it shameful for a scholar to deny that the Roma were targeted by a Nazi Genocide. They lost, at minimum, 500,000 during their Devouring. And since population statistics on Europe's Roma were (and remain) so poor to begin with, 500,000 is ONLY the lowest reliable possible estimate.

Actually, the extent of the mass murder may well have been 1 million or 1.5 million. We simply do not know. But of this there is no doubt: it was Genocide.

Like the Jewish people, the Roma were often murdered by the Einsatzgruppen, the "mobile" Nazi murder machine that reined death on targeted populations as their army marched further and further East.

These Einsatzgruppen units kept far less scrupulous statistics than their brethren SS commanders in "concentration camps." Given the Nazi establishment of Lety--a concentration camp for Roma alone, where the preferred means of murder was drowning in barrels--there may have been other, as yet "undiscovered" Roma camps. Finally, the bulk of Europe's Roma population actually lived (and still do) in the East--Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Romania, Serbia and so on.

With Guenter Lewy's 2005 issue of The Armenian Massacres in Ottoman Turkey: A Disputed Genocide (Utah Series in Turkish and Islamic Stud), I must say that in hindsight, his book on the Gypsies should now appear to all readers more of a Genocide Denial tract than balanced scholarship.

For (again as others have noted) the referenced to Roma sources is sparse, at best, and the reliance on Nazi documentation, terminology and legislation, is another sign of sympathy with the oppressors.

As a collector of books, video and musical materials on, about and by the Roma, concerning their history and culture, I found this book one of the most disappointing in my collection thus far. I will keep it--but only as a sample of what scholarship on the Roma should NOT be.

--Alyssa A. Lappen

Worthy of praise.......2007-03-29

This is the first book from Mr. Lewy that I have read but will not be the last one. The plight of the Gypsies during the Nazi rule is presented to the readers in a dignified and scholarly fashion. This is a highly readable book, well argued, and it covers its intended subject with ease, respect and, in a concise manner. I will not attempt a synopsis here; it suffices to say that the author captures the soul of the ordeal endured by the Gypsies under the Nazi murder machine. Although the author does not consider that the Gypsies were specifically targeted for what was later to become known as genocide (except the mass sterilizations), he recognizes the grievous harm done to that community due to so called racial considerations and also due to the predominant life style of the Gypsies. This book deserves five stars.

One of the only books on the subject.......2006-12-14

Some 50,000 Gypsy's were gassed to death in the war and many more died. This book is a clinical account of the brutalization of the Gypsy people but it is mostly a legal account of how the Nazis slowly de-humanized and categorized the Gypsy 'nomads' in Germany. There is not enough discussion of Gypsy history or the anti-Gypsy campaign, if there was one, in Russia and other occupied countries like Rumania where Gypsy's numbered as much as 5-10% of the population. THere is also little discussion of the difference between Sinti and Gypsy's or Gypsy culture and religion and social habits. There is much light shed upon the workings of the Nazi regime and its 'logic' of persecution. Nazi policy was overwhelmingly legalistic, despite the breakdown of actual laws protecting people's right to life, the regime cared reeply about classification and legalism. This is an interesting account of how the Nazis 'discovered' the 'gypsy problem' and set about 'solving' it in their typical fashion. Not enough literature exists on non-Jewish communities targeted for destruction, such as the descendants of Senegalese in the Rhineland, the Serbs or the Cretans. This is a major addition to Holocaust literature, but it needs an update and more information. A superb beggining.

Seth J. Frantzman

Hitler's other victims.......2006-08-17

Long ignored by most historians is the plight of the Gypsies at the hands of the nazis.

Subjected to every indignity and persecution as the Jews of Europe yet often ignored by most historians except brief. Often subjected to grizly medical experiments by men such as Mengele. Many of the photos of his victims are in fact of Gypsy children.

This book gives a good scope of what the nazis did to them.

But like most, it does not give a solid number on how many were murdered by the nazis. Nobody knows. Few Censusus covered them. Few records were kept. More often than not, they were shoved into the same trains as the Jews and gassed with them.

There are many gaps but this book does at least do some justice.

Denying Genocide.......2006-01-01

Guenter Lewy seems to have one mission in life: to prove that there was only one genocide in world history, that of the Jewish people during WWII, and that no other ethnic or religious groups have ever been victims of genocide. In recent years, he has been publishing one book after another that attempt to demonstrate that various peoples (American Indians, Gypsies, Armenians) were never victims of genocide. To achieve his objective, he makes a selective use of historical documents, using only the ones that corroborate his thesis, and ignoring those that would prove him wrong. His reading of history is permeated with bias. I recommend anyone to read the negative review of this book by a world-class scholar of genocide, Robert Melson, in Holocaust and Genocide Studies (vol. 16, no. 1, 2002).

The Gypsies during the Second World War: Volume 1: From Race Science to the Camps (Interface Collection)

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The Gypsies during the Second World War: Volume 1: From Race Science to the Camps (Interface Collection)
Karola Fings , Herbert Heuss , and Frank Sparing
Manufacturer: University Of Hertfordshire Press
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This first volume of "The Gypsies during the Second World War" describes how German policies of Gypsy persecution from 1875 onwards led to the establishment of the chillingly named Race Hygiene Research Centre in 1936 which under its Director, Rober Ritter, delivered the justification for the eventual destruction of the Gypsies in the Nazi death camps. Subsequent chapters describe the origin of internment camps as a means of clearing the cities of Gypsies and the eventual development of the death camps in Nazi Germany at Buchenwald, Ravensbruck and Auschwitz

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A Gypsy in Auschwitz
Otto Rosenberg
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This stark reminiscence is a haunting account of life as a gypsy during the Third Reich. Rosenburg's tale of horror will touch many hearts and place in the long and tortured record of the Gypsy Holocaust.

Memorial Book: The Gypsies at Auschwitz-Birkenau

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An important, neglected publication on Roma in the Holocaust

Memorial Book: The Gypsies at Auschwitz-Birkenau

Manufacturer: K. G. Saur
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An important, neglected publication on Roma in the Holocaust.......2004-04-12

This monumental collection, the result of pains-taking research, presents for the first time the complete facsimile records of the Roma (Gypsies) in the Zigeunerlager of Auschwitz-Birkenau. While readers should keep in mind that at least one, if not more, transports of Roma to the camp were gassed upon arrival and not officially entered in the registry, this multi-volume set still provides invaluable data on those Roma registered in the camp, including children born there. Such information includes the age, date of entry, date of death, name, gender, place of origin, and in some cases cause of death for a great many of the internees. Hence, we are provided with a wealth of data, ripe for statistical analysis, that unfortunately has yet to be incorporated into a study of the Ziguenerlager. This edition also includes primary source accounts of Romani survivors and Nazi camp officials, which paint a much better picture of the barbaric conditions existing in the camp than have been published elsewhere. There are also, pictures of some survivors and camp officials, architectural plans of the camp, and a cogent introduction by the director of the State Museum. Except for the facsimiles of the camp records, which of course are in German, the text is presented in three languages, English, German, and Polish, making this work easily accessible to scholars, students, and the public-at-large. I highly recommend this set be added to the collection of any college or university library.

National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria

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National Socialism and Gypsies in Austria
Erika Thurner
Manufacturer: University Alabama Press
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The Nazi Persecution of the Gypsies
Guenter Lewy
Manufacturer: Oxford University Press
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Weeping Violins: The Gypsy Tragedy in Europe

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A wonderful historical recounting of a forgotten segment

Weeping Violins: The Gypsy Tragedy in Europe
Alt Betty
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Weeping Violins provides a history of the Gypsy people in Europe. Betty Alt and Silvia Folts trace the origins of the Gyspsy people and tell the story of their expansion, treatment by other ethnic groups, and struggles during the Holocaust. The book sheds light on Gypsy treatment at the hands of Nazi soldiers, and the struggle to have Gypsy experiences recognized by Jewish leaders and scholars of the Holocaust. Contents: Preface; Centuries of Persecution; Ominous Signs; A Deadly Journey; The Effort of Survival; Gypsy Genocide; Free at Last; The "Gypsy Problem" Continues; Epilogue.

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A wonderful historical recounting of a forgotten segment.......1999-10-18

This book brings to light some of the other populations that have faced discrimination for centries, the gypsies. Folts has personal knowledge that shines through the horror of Nazi Germany's devastating era. Everyone who is concerned about history repeating itself, should read this book. This is discrimination and scapegoating at its worst. Man's inhumanity to man. The book is well documented and thoughtfully written without sentiment.

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