Jews, Slavs, Romani/Sinti folks (Gypsies), handicapped people today, homosexuals, socialists, communists, unionists and other groups not fitting into the Nazis' vision of a Greater Germany faced persecution, and had been enslaved or murdered in loss of life camps. Europe's Jews and Romani/Sinti people were being marked for full extermination. Common Threads is a collection of tales from people of men and women who have died from AIDS.