The signs came down almost as fast as they went up: plain white sheets of paper, plastered to a Rowland Heights gas station door, prohibiting Romani women from entering. “No Gypsy women in long ...

I heard daily allusions about me being a ‘black gypsy’, that my family and other Romani people should have been gassed to death, that we all should have been annihilated long ago. I was also assaulted ...

My grandmother was a Romani (Gypsy) woman from Hungary. The Romani people feel most comfortable among the Jewish folks. Thus I grew up as the only Goy (non-Jew) in my apartment building in the Bronx, ...