Day of Commemoration of the Roma Victims
- When:
- 02.08.2011 - 02.08.2011
- Category:
- Commemoration
Description
On the night between 2-3 August 1944, several thousand Roma and Sinti were massacred at the Zigeunerlager in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The date of 2 August is now used to commemorate the genocide against the Roma and Sinti peoples.