The Porajmos (also Porrajmos), literally Devouring, is a term coined by the
Romani (Gypsy) people to describe attempts by the regime in
Nazi Germany to exterminate most of the Romani peoples of
Europe during
The Holocaust. The phenomenon has been little studied and largely overshadowed by the Shoah (the Hebrew term for the Nazi campaign to exterminate Jews). The term was introduced into the literature by the Romani scholar and activist
Ian Hancock, in the early 1990s, though he did not coin the term. There is also another term, Samudaripen (Mass killing), coined by Marcel Courthiade, but dismissed as not conforming to the
Romani language..
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