Milkweed by Jerry Spinelli
Internet Activity

Use the link below to answer questions 1 - 4

http://fcit.usf.edu/holocaust/people/victroma.htm

1.  What is the official name for gypsies?

2.  When they were taken to concentration camps, what kind of patches were the gypsies (Romani) required to wear on their clothing?

3.  What did the patches stand for? 

4.  According to estimates, how many gypsies were murdered during the Holocaust?  

  Use the link below to answer question 5.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Holocaust/gypsies.html

5.  Where were the gypsies (Roma) originally from?

 
Use the link below to answer questions 6 and 7.

http://www.irespect.net/Travellers/Gypsy%20Holocaust%20Factsheet.htm

6.  What is the Romani name for the Holocaust?

7.  What does it mean?

Use google to find 5 facts about Gypsies or Jews and the Holocaust. List the facts on your paper.