Gypsy genocide or Porraimos (in Romani, Porrajmos, literally "devouring") are the names given to the attempts by Nazi Germany and Nazi Austria to exterminate the majority of the Gypsy peoples of Europe, as part of the Holocaust during World War II. 

In the thousand years that Gypsy tribes have lived in Europe, they have been subject to anti-Gypsy persecution and humiliation; They are stigmatized as common criminals, social misfits and vagrants.