Holocaust books revolving around Nazi persecution of other groups besides Jews, such as Gypsy or gay victims

[Kitty]

one of my favorite subjects to read about is the holocaust I have read a ton of books both fiction and non fiction on the Nazi persecution of the Jews. but I have been wondering the last couple of years if there are any books revolving around Nazi persecution of other groups such as Gypsy or gay victims.

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals

[Lobstergirl, au gratin]

For an in-depth look at Nazi persecution, both in the death camps and outside, of people either they considered medically interesting and desired to experiment on (like twins), or useless (the mentally ill, the retarded), read The Nazi Doctors: Medical Killing and the Psychology of Genocide.

[Kitty]

I read rise and fall of the third Reich a few years ago.

[Jane]

Deaf People in Hitler's Europe

[Trilobyte]

And The Violins Stopped Playing: A Story Of The Gypsy Holocaust

[Sallie]

"Fires in the Dark" by Louise Doughty
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30...

The Men With the Pink Triangle by Heinz Heger
http://www.librarything.com/work/246977

[Warfawek]

Come and See is an 1985 movie by Elem Klimov written by Ales Adamovich. Ales was a teenage partisan during the war and would write numerous stories, novels and non-fiction books about all the groups in eastern europe during nazi occupation. After the success of Come and See he also waged into modern fiction but I don't think much of it has ever been translated. The film is avaible in whole with subs through google.

[Amber]

The Hiding Place







Maus is my absolute favorite. This man every horror you can think of during the holocaust.

[Lydia]

Fiction-wise, you could try Briar Rose by Jane Yolen. While the story doesn't revolve around either of those groups, there's a side story involving a gay Holocaust victim.

[Risha]

If you've not read Anne Frank yet, you should begin there.

Other than that: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...

[Sophie]

I second the rec for Briar Rose.

[Michele]

Oh yes, Briar Rose is a wonderful book.

[Rainbowheart]

Bent is good...

[Joseph]

You might be interested in Kathryn Lasky's The Extra.
Summary: Is the chance to serve as an extra for Hitler’s favorite filmmaker a chance at life — or a detour on the path to inevitable extermination?

One ordinary afternoon, fifeen-year-old Lilo and her family are suddenly picked up by Hitler’s police and imprisoned as part of the "Gypsy plague." Just when it seems certain that they will be headed to a labor camp, Lilo is chosen by filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl to work as a film extra. Life on the film set is a bizarre alternate reality. The surroundings are glamorous, but Lilo and the other extras are barely fed, closely guarded, and kept in a locked barn when not on the movie set. And the beautiful, charming Riefenstahl is always present, answering the slightest provocation with malice, flaunting the power to assign prisoners to life or death. Lilo takes matters into her own hands, effecting an escape and running for her life. In this chilling but ultimately uplifting novel, Kathryn Lasky imagines the lives of the Gypsies who worked as extras for the real Nazi filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, giving readers a story of survival unlike any other.

[Rainbowheart]

T4
Facing the Lion
Fires in the Dark
Auschwitz Lullaby
The Chosen Ones
Hitler's Forgotten Victims
Branded by the Pink Triangle
The Men with the Pink Triangle
The Forgotten Victims of the Holocaust

[Rainbowheart]

Clifford's Blues
Pink Triangle Legacies

[Eric]

Tess Gerritsen's Playing with Fire recounts some of the Italians' contribution to the atrocities in a fictional story about a violinist , and is worth a read .