re: #50 marjoriemoon

A lot of the time what you hear is not really denying as in “it never happened” but instead they question the numbers. It wasn’t 6 million, they say. It was like 200,000 or something. They say there weren’t 6 million Jews in Europe.

But there were. More than that actually. Jews, by and large, were not allowed to keep birth or death records so they weren’t recorded, but the families knew the numbers, in and out of Europe.

It’s very hard to research the Roma in the Holocaust. Gypsies were so viciously treated even before the Nazis that the old folks often have a hard time distinguishing between the persecution before and the persecution after.