Rescue of Roma during the Romani Holocaust

During World War II, some individuals and groups helped Romani people and others escape the Porajmos conducted by Nazi Germany.

In Crimea, Crimean Tatars have been credited with helping the Crimean Roma during WWII.

The Bosniaks from Zenica published a declaration stressing the special position of the so called White Gipsy/Bijeli cigo a sedentary Muslim Roma community, and with help of religious authorities in Sarajevo, the declaration influenced the Ustaše authorities to make a special provision in May 1942 to spare Muslim Roma residing in Bosnia and Herzegovina from deportation to the concentration camps to Jasenovac.