Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
Today is 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.
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