Leaves in a Holocaust Wind with author Robert Dawson

The Holocaust, the final solution for Jews, is infamous in history. Robert Dawson’s Leaves in a Holocaust Wind is the story of another community that suffered in the Holocaust: the Gypsies.

Told by Demeter Fox and Zuzzi, Leaves in a Holocaust Wind follows their journey to freedom in the German occupied territory of Slovakia. From the horrors of slaughter in the woods, the lies of a safe future, the concentration camp of Majdanek and the hiding away in the countryside, Fox and Zuzzi must come to terms with what they have witnessed and find the courage to survive until freedom comes

It is a novel of the culture of the Romanies in the face of a most brutal regime, and in which most of the major events are based on real incidents.

Author Robert Dawson became interested in Gypsies at the age of 11. Expelled from school at the age of 14, he became a journalist and crime and police specialist. In 1977, he retrained as a teacher, retiring as a head teacher. Since then, he writes full time and is an acknowledged authority on British Romanies.

Join Robert and the Friends of Carnegie Library on Zoom to discuss his book and a crime little spoken of.