![]() After all, the Gypsies are Aryans too, as the Germans themselves tell. But the kumpania, and their leader the Shero Rom, do not see the danger, not even when the local German commandant offers them free housing in the old ghetto vacated by Jews who have been 'resettled'. Perhaps back in the bosom of the tribe, and travelling, they will be safe. They rejoin their kumpania of the Lowland Gypsies in Brest Litovsk. But when this dramatic warning comes, from a cousin who has just escaped from the Germans, their hard-won way of life has to change fundamentally. Take your family and run!" In Warsaw in 1942 Roman Mirga and his father and mother are living as Bareforytka Roma, big-town Gypsies, and working as a music trio in a night club favoured by German officers. They are all wearing the 'Z' sign for 'Zigeuner' instead of']' for ']ude'. "I escaped from the ghetto!" "Ghetto! What were you doing there?" "There are plenty of Gypsies in the Warsaw ghetto. ![]()
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