The vast majority were the Jews. There were much less numbers of Gypsies, Homosexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and other in the camp so less emphasis is given.

There are documentaries and books on almost every group of people victimized by the Nazis - at least in Germany, where I live. That documentary about the Jews dominates is only logical, because they were the main target of the Nazis.

~~Massively edited on December 40, 2008: First, if you want to learn about us in the Holocaust, please visit my IMVU: http://avatars.imvu.com/Arisztid About halfway down on the left is an article where I obliterated that bogus 500,000 number of our dead in the Holocaust, supplanting a more real estimate of 5 million dead. I support my claims. I tell some other stories and some other facts that Gadje just do not know or want to know about the Holocaust. ~~~~~~ THANKYOU!! Signed... a Gypsy who lost his grandmother's family to the gas chambers. I wish I could give you more than +5. We are systematically shunted under the carpet... on purpose. That is why nobody hears our stories. ----------edited in from a comment thread [brackets are things I left out of the comment thread]: Germany, itself, admits to 2+ million of us killed. That is the RECORDED number [I just found that out for certain relatively recently but I, and many of us, already suspected]. Many of us were not recorded. Others were mislabeled as whatever other group (usually Jews). You cannot factor in the camps that were eliminated before the Allies won. [What about our dead shot into pits and not recorded at all, in any form?] . Current guestimate of our dead is FIVE MILLION. . We were also "favored" by Dr. Mengele. That is NOT a good thing. . Most of out survivors were sterilized. After the war we have been systematically ignored. We are denied our place in history... completely. ----------------------- We had a much smaller population than the Jews to start with. The decimation to our population and very culture was unbelievable. We STILL are trying to recover. Our problems hardly stopped after the Holocaust. I could supply some upsetting articles if asked. There was NO apology or even recognition from Germany... we were insulted and still ARE insulted for "daring" to try to take our rightful place. After all, we are just thieves and crooks. We are TOLD this. Our scholars who speak about O Porrajmos (what we call the Holocaust) are insulted and walked out on. We are denied our very place. In 1984 American Romanies demonstrated in Washington to protest the exclusion of our representation more... on the US Holocaust Memorial Council. President Reagan made our first appointment in 1987, but in 2002 it was taken away by the Bush administration. Once again Romanies have been denied recognition of their history in the Holocaust. ~~in information section for this video: http://tinyurl.com/562ml8 I am attaching a news article. Bear in mind that the numbers are VERY skewed. However, I think the potency of this news article speaks for itself. ~~~from the December 2008 edit: Many of the sites that attempt to minimize us state that there were only about a million of us living in Europe during the Nazi regime and, thus, even the 500,000 number is too high. That is incorrect. There are, according to calculations, currently 15 million (low end estimate) to 28.5 million of us worldwide, all but about 1.5 million of us in Europe (it is impossible to get an accurate number of of our population)... after the Nazi regime. There were far more before the Nazi regime, obviously. 75% to 80% of us were eliminated by the Nazis. The math that those using to minimize us simply does not add up. The 500,000 number is tripe. I cannot find any documentation about the pre-WWII numbers for us. Not only are we forgotten, but our scholars are derided, mocked, ridiculed, and told to shut up if they speak of O Porrajmos. This is normal, for us, to come from the laymen. However, this goes on at the top levels of academia as well. -------- "During the war trials following the collapse of the Third Reich, nobody spoke out for the Romani victims, and no reparations were forthcoming since the German government, fearing no opposition, disclaimed its obligation to pay them. One Romani survivor, summoned to testify in behalf of someone else against a prison guard who, it so happened, had been in charge of that man’s own barracks, was given ninety days in jail for assault after feigning deafness and punching the guard when he approached him. As late as 1947, Romani survivors in Germany continued to hide in the abandoned concentration camps because they were afraid to show themselves publicly; pre-Nazi laws ordering the arrest of Gypsies not having documented proof of citizenship were still in effect. Romanies have still not received compensation as a people for their losses in the Holocaust. Instead, Romani refugees in Germany have been placed in camps and subjected to deportations and racist attacks. "

I agree entirely. I have been listening to a dear ABer, Arizstid, about the suffering of the Roma and Sinti during WW2, and acknowledgement of their suffering, and that they, too, as a people, were singled out as well. As I wrote in a note to one of the answers here: It is not a matter of how many people were killed, but that they WERE killed FOR THEIR ETHNICITY. Yes, the Jews were targetted. No one doubts that. But, proportionate to their population, the Roma and Sinti were heavily victimised. Estimates say that up to 80% of the European Roma were killed. If that is not a major offensive against a people, what is? No one wants to downplay the suffering of the Jews. God forbid. But acknowledging the suffering of the Roma does not detract from that of the Jews. Every other group targetted has memorials. THere are even memorials to the poor handicapped who were targetted. But not to the Roma and Sinti. They need to grieve too, and acknowledging their pain can help them do so.

You have answered your own question, there used to be millinons of North and South american indiginus peoples, Millions, and yes there was a genocide that has gone throughout the americas much bigger in total lives lost,and really that is in the back of many peoples mind, that the extermination of the Indians in the americas was horrible but not something that people in general like to talk about,for heaven forbide thou shalt not kilt. Now you ask why all the documenteries are about the Jews, and that is because there is alot of money within the Jewish community, and allot of people who are within the jewish community are involved in film. The money the means, and their story is all within reach and if you have the means to tell the story over to each new generation, and then it is our fault for not telling our own. It may take time and money, but let the story of your past be told by you. No one is saying that a certain crime in time did not happened, just do it before it is to late, and take note of who tells the story and how events came about, because we the russians killed almost as many jews, but we rarly ever hear about that from the jews in popular film why?"

having been able too study this subject to many years ago, there is plenty of documetaries if you will, that go into great detail about all ethnic groups who were victims of the nazi regime. one of the issues i see today, is that our younger population only view what is considered the most dominent issue, the victimazation of the jewish population. time in schools today preclude the real injustices to be examined and viewed, commented and otherwise. in todays world, there is continually a 'cleansing' of other ethnic groups but we do not readily recognize it. have we ever learned anything??