Jews Were Not the Only OnesMy name is Maria. My family was deported from our home near Hamburg in 1940. I was 19 years old. It was scary. Many people survived the ordeal, but I remember many more being killed. Jews were not the only ones despised by the Nazis. They wanted all of us who were “asocial”, including Roman Gypsies like my family, to leave our homeland. The difference between me and those who remember what happened is this: they survived. I didn't do it. I lived a pretty quiet life growing up. My family was part of itinerant Roma families. We lived in a small wagon and I was the oldest of five children. I had four brothers. My father sold various animal foods to try to survive, and he did well. When the Nazis came to power, my father told us everything would be fine. They were good people. They would repair Germany. Oh, Father, how wrong you were. At first, everything was as before. Then we were rounded up and taken to a field outside Berlin. We had to make a little house out of our little wagon. I was 12 years old. I remember my brothers being forced to have surgery, even though they were little. I later learned that they were sterilized. We spent seven years there. My father was deported in 1938, but he married and saw me get married at the end of 1937. My husband was a gentle man, who had been a blacksmith. He helped repair everyone's wagons when necessary. His name is no more important than mine. He died three days before me, while he was in Auschwitz. I had two children during this time. My husband was sterilized so we couldn't have any more. I loved my boys very much. When they were sent to Auschwitz, it was the last time I saw them alive. My two boys were killed in less than two...... middle of paper ......, the Black for the Gypsies; they were created to shame and embarrass them. People now have new words they care about, just like triangles. “Fag”, “Retard” and many others were created to attack people. Hate exists no matter what we do. Think before you act.Bibliography “The Holocaust: the non-Jewish victims”. Non-Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Np, and Web. March 10, 2014. “Persecution of Roma (Gypsies) in Pre-War Germany, 1933-1939.” » United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, June 10, 2013. Web. March 11, 2014. “Genocide of European Roma (Gypsies), 1939-1945. » United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, June 10, 2013. Web. March 10, 2014. “Ravensbrück”. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Council, June 10, 2013. Web. March 8. 2014.