Sinti and Roma: The Genocide Europe Struggles to Remember
Officials and Roma groups hold ceremonies and memorial services to honor about 500,000 Roma and Sinti killed in the Nazi genocide.
- On Sunday, European cities observed the European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, commemorating the hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti people murdered during the Nazi era.
- Commemorations mark the 1944 liquidation of the "Gypsy Family Camp" at Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration and Extermination Camp on August 2-3, when thousands were forced into gas chambers by Nazi henchmen.
- Across Europe, countries like the Czech Republic and Poland maintain distinct commemorative traditions, with the Czech Republic observing August 2 officially since 2015 and Poland since 2011.
- Beyond ceremonies, organizers use these days to raise awareness for ongoing Antiziganism, emphasizing that remembrance must be measured by what happens in public institutions throughout the year.
- Historians continue efforts to restore identity to victims like Settela Steinbach, the "girl with the headscarf," ensuring individuals are remembered with names rather than as anonymous victims.
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The persecution of the Roma and Sinti during the Second World War was commemorated at the National Holocaust Museum in Amsterdam. Speeches were given and flowers laid in the museum, and there was a minute of silence in memory of the victims. For a long time, there was little recognition of the fate of the Roma and Sinti during the Holocaust. In 2015, August 2 was declared a day of remembrance in Europe. That date is not a random date for the Ro…
It took a long time until August 2, the Day of Remembrance of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust, became a common European day of remembrance.
Sinti and Roma: The genocide Europe struggles to remember
Every year on 2nd August, Genocide of the Roma Memorial Day, Europe remembers the hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti people persecuted and murdered during the Nazi era. The real question is what happens on 3rd August – and every day thereafter asks Michaela Küchler in an OpEd für Euronews.
The European Day of Remembrance for the Roma Victims of Genocide in the Second World War was marked today at the site of the former Topovska Šupa camp in Belgrade.
The Roma community remembers the victims of the Holocaust on August 2. It is 82 years since the liquidation of the Roma sector at Auschwitz. The Nazi regime killed almost three thousand women, children and the elderly in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. They were prisoners from Central Europe. The community in Romania was also persecuted, tens of thousands were deported to Transnistria.
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