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Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

sfi.usc.edu The History and Significance of August 2, Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

The need for continued memorialization of the fate of the Roma and Sinti population of Europe has never been more important.

The History and Significance of August 2, Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

Today is the 79th anniversary of the night when the Axis massacred 2,897 Roma in Auschwitz. They were part of the 220,000–500,000 Roma & Sinti whom the Axis massacred in a tragedy known as the Porajmos. It was, in brief, another way for the white petty bourgeoisie to maintain its economic standing.

Related:

The oppression of the Roma & Sinti varied throughout the Third Reich

Alsace, France became a testing ground for the Third Reich’s anti-Roma policies

The persecution of Rom & Sinti in Fascist Italy

West Germany’s Federal Court ruled that a 1940 deportation of Roma was not a racist atrocity

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