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It appears that the term "gypsy" is a corruption of "Egyptian," reflecting the widespread belief during the Middle Ages that these people were of Egyptian origin.
Gypsies were later labeled as asocials by the 1937 Laws against Crime, regardless of whether they had been charged with any unlawful acts.
Gypsies were forbidden to move freely and were concentrated in encampments with Germany in 1939, later (1941) transformed into fenced ghettos, from which they would be seized for transport by the criminal police (aided by dogs) and dispatched to Auschwitz in February 1943.
www.mtsu.edu /~baustin/gypsies.html   (1513 words)

  
  Search The Llewellyn Encyclopedia: Gypsies
The term “gypsy” is sometimes used to mean a wanderer.
The term “Gypsy” was given to them because it was believed they came not from India, but from Egypt, where they were supposedly exiled for hiding the infant Jesus.
It has been estimated that as many as 500,000 Gypsies, nearly all the Romani in eastern Europe, were killed during the Nazi Holocaust.
www.llewellynencyclopedia.com /term/Gypsies   (305 words)

  
 The Gypsies
Since these are the only ancient texts to speak of the wanderings of the Gypsies across Asia; the rest of the story has been be filled out by linguistic evidence with, I dare say, a generous amount of speculation thrown in.
Gypsies were first recorded in Spain in Zaragoza, capital of Aragon in 1425.
Gypsies: from India - from the Indus to the Mediterranean - by Donald Kenrick
herso.freeservers.com /gypsies.html   (1979 words)

  
 Gypsies In The Palace
Whether inclined to waste away in Margaritaville, devour a cheeseburger in Paradise or investigate a crime of passion in Cuba, audiences are whisked into a feeding frenzy by Northeast Ohio-based Gypsies in the Palace, a trop-rock band playing original and Jimmy Buffett music.
When Gypsies in the Palace opened its annual tour with a one-week stand at Buffett's own Margaritaville at Key West, Florida, a palette of wild tropical-print shirts, as well as fruit, palm tree, sunset and parrot hats, adorned flock members in attendance.
The genesis of the Gypsies goes back to 1989 and the formation of Goldfinch and Springdale, an Ohio rock-and-roll group.
www.gypsiesinthepalace.com   (396 words)

  
 CIU
This included the bureaucrats who were all too often more concerned with their own careers than with the plight of those they were sending off to be killed.
Those Gypsies who were considered racially pure -- that is, Aryans were for the most part spared in Germany even if they were "asocials"; those who were viewed as racially impure criminals were not.
Gypsies were condemned to a "selective mass murder on a vast scale.
www.faithindialogue.org /update/story.cfm?chnl=20&storyid=79   (3231 words)

  
 The Real Genocide in Yugoslavia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
The system of occupation in the former Yugoslavia, hastily created in April 1941 and presumably temporary in nature, was weakened from the outset by intra-Axis differences and by the consequences of their decision to install the Ustashas in power.
In late spring of 1941 dozens of towns and villages throughout the NDH were subjected to terrorist operations in which Serbs, Jews and Gypsies were either murdered on the spot or led away to concentration camps.
By the beginning of July tens of thousands of people, overwhelmingly Serbs, already were killed; Italian sources estimated 350,000 victims by the end of July 1941.[4] The regime introduced the methods of genocidal terror and extermination that were only later perfected by the SS Einsatzgruppen.[5] This was not incidental.
www.balkanpeace.org /cib/cro/cro15.shtml   (6453 words)

  
 Sky Gypsies
The Sky Gypsies is an aerotrekking club, located in Rodeo, New Mexico.
Membership to the club is by invitation only and all members are sport pilots with a weight shift control rating.
The Sky Gypsies operates a number of airfields around Arizona and New Mexico, each with varying facilities for airplane storage, refueling, lodging, etc. Members may organize individual or group treks between facilities, or they may do local treks, leaving from and returning to the same facility.
www.skygypsies.com   (141 words)

  
 Home Page
Event schedules have been updated and are current as of June 15 2007.
The Jackpine Gypsies Motorcycle Club started in 1936, with an official American Motorcycle Association (AMA) charter in 1937.
The Sturgis Rally has now gotten so large, that it's very difficult to measure the attendance.
www.jackpinegypsies.com   (115 words)

  
 CURRICULUM VITA- Carol Silverman   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
"Gypsies: Stereotypes and Scapegoats." College of Arts and Sciences Lecture Series on Change and Continuity in Eastern Europe, Portland, February 1992.
"Gypsies of Bulgaria: Celebration and Adaptation," Museum of Natural History, University of Oregon, January 1986; also given as part of the Forum Series: Beaverton Public Library, March 1986; Bend Community Center, April 1986; Eugene Conference Center, November 1986; Albany Public Library, April 1987.
"Gypsies in the Urban Landscape," Geography Department Colloquium, University of Oregon, January 1983.
darkwing.uoregon.edu /~anthro/silverman.html   (5808 words)

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