Commemoration of the Holocaust Memorial Day for Roma and Sinti
From left: Dotschy Reinhardt, Roman Kwiatkowski, Romani Rose (Chairman, Central Council of German Sinti and Roma), Manuela Schwesig (President of the German Bundesrat), Malgorzata Kidawa-Blonska (Marshal of the Senate, Republic of Poland), Bärbel Bas (President of the German Bundestag) / Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz On 2 August, the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma and the Association of Roma in Poland commemorate the 80th anniversary of the execution of the last remaining Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz. On the night of 2 to 3 August 1944, 4300 women, children and elderly people of the minority were forced into the gas chambers in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp. In 2015, the European Parliament declared 2 August as European Holocaust Memorial Day for Roma and Sinti to commemorate the 500,000 victims of Nazi regime. Alma Klasing , a Holocaust survivor who lost close relatives in Auschwitz, emphasised in her speech in Ausc...