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Gypsies and travellers under continual attack
Today is International Holocaust Memorial Day. But have the lessons of the persecution and discrimination which preceded genocide been learned? Not for travelling people. PETER LAZENBY reports

SHOAH is the Hebrew word for the nazi Holocaust which killed six million Jews.

Less well-known is “Samudaripen.” It is the word used by people from the Roma travelling culture for the Holocaust.

Travelling people were the second-largest group slaughtered by the nazis.

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