Minority Victims of the Holocaust

While the majority of victims of the Holocaust were Jews, many other minority groups were targeted as well. Jehovah’s Witnesses, Roma (Gypsies), homosexuals, people with disabilities, and others were imprisoned in concentration camps or killed during the Holocaust. The resources below provide information on these targeted groups.

RECOMMENDED RESOURCES

Books

Linda Jacobs Altman – The forgotten victims of the Holocaust

János Bársony – Pharrajimos: the fate of the Roma during the Holocaust

Suzanne E. Evans – Forgotten crimes: the Holocaust and people with disabilities

Ina R. Friedman – The other victims: first-person stories of non-Jews persecuted by the Nazis

Detlef Garbe – Between resistance and martyrdom: Jehovah’s Witnesses in the Third Reich

Heinz Heger – The men with the pink triangle: the true, life-and-death story of homosexuals in the Nazi death camps

Ann Clare LeZotte – T4: a novel in verse

Clarence Lusane – Hitler’s black victims: the historical experiences of Afro-Germans, European Blacks, Africans, and African Americans in the Nazi era

Search Terms

Euthanasia

Gays — Nazi persecution

Jehovah’s Witnesses — Nazi persecution

Minorities — Germany — History — 20th century

People with disabilities — Nazi persecution

Race discrimination — Germany

Romanies — Nazi persecution

World War, 1939-1945 — Atrocities

Online Resources

Jewish Virtual Library: Non-Jewish Victims

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Mosaic of Victims: In Depth

Yad Vashem: The Persecution of Non-Jewish Groups