Romani Holocaust
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The Romani Holocaust, also known as the Porajmos, was the genocide of European Roma and Sinti people during World War II. Beginning in 1933, Nazi Germany systematically persecuted the European Roma, S
European Roma in Asperg, Nazi Germany, are rounded up for deportation by Nazi German authorities on 22 May 1940.
Stephanie Holomek, a Roma victim of the Holocaust.
Romani woman with a German police officer and Nazi psychologist Robert Ritter
Romani women at Lublin Ghetto, 1940
Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
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Roma Holocaust Memorial Day is a memorial day that commemorates the victims of the Romani Holocaust, which resulted in the murder of an estimated 220,000–500,000 Sinti and Romani people by Nazi German
Romani Holocaust
…Germany formally recognized that Nazi Germany had committed genocide against Sinti and Roma people. In 2011, Poland officially declared August 2nd as day of commemoration of the Romani genocide. Within the Nazi German state, first persecution, then extermination, was aimed primarily at sedentary "Gypsy mongrels". In December 1942, Heinrich…
Monument to the Memory of the Holocaust of the Romani in Borzęcin, Poland
Wreaths at the memorial to the murdered Sinti and Roma in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp on 2 August 2019
Plaque in Óbuda-Békásmegyer, Budapest, marking the Roma Holocaust; it was unveiled on 2 August 2021.