Council of Europe Honours Roma Victims of the Holocaust: 'acknowledge the Past and Improve Roma Rights Today'
August 02, 2018
August 02, 2018
STRASBOURG, France, Aug. 2 -- The Council of Europe issued the following news release:
Today in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe held a commemorative wreath-laying ceremony in memory of Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust. This year marks the 74th anniversary of 2 August, 1944, when all remaining Roma of the so-called "Zigeunerlager" (Gypsy camp) - 2,897 men, women and children - were exterminated in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The Romani geno . . .
Today in Strasbourg, the Council of Europe held a commemorative wreath-laying ceremony in memory of Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust. This year marks the 74th anniversary of 2 August, 1944, when all remaining Roma of the so-called "Zigeunerlager" (Gypsy camp) - 2,897 men, women and children - were exterminated in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The Romani geno . . .