Ten to twelve million strong, a thousand years out of India — survivors of slavery, of the Nazi genocide, and of Europe’s oldest prejudice.
The Roma are Europe’s largest ethnic minority, numbering an estimated 10 to 12 million people, with communities on every continent. Originally from northwestern India, they migrated westward a thousand years ago — and have faced a thousand years of persecution, culminating in the Nazi genocide that killed up to half a million Roma.
