Define Holocaust
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| Gypsy prisoners (#74705) |
| Date: November 1941-December 1942 |
| Photo credit: Archives of Mechanical Documentation, courtesy of USHMM photo archives |
| Photographer: No photographer recorded |
Photo description
A group of Gypsy prisoners, awaiting instructions from their German captors, sit in an open area near the fence in the Belzec forced labor camp.
Relationship to guideline
Although Jews were the primary victims of the Holocaust, the Nazis targeted many other groups. Up to one half million Gypsies were also victims of this genocide because the Nazi regime labeled Gypsies as “asocials” (outside “normal” society) and as racial “inferiors” who threatened the purity of the Aryan race.