Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews and the Holocaust by Ari Joskowicz Princeton University Press, 368 pages, £28
How do we know what we know about the Holocaust, especially its victims? What is the relationship between history, evidence, and memory? For whom have the “guardians of the past” spoken and why? Huge questions like this underpin Ari Joskowicz’s remarkable new book, examining the fraught history of relations between Romani and Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Both were targeted by the Nazis, yet as Joskowicz notes, “Roma and Jews did not have a shared experience of persecution under Nazism. They suffered next to but rarely with each other.”