mrffahrenheit:2016 marks the 72nd anniversary of the genocide...

mrffahrenheit:

2016 marks the 72nd anniversary of the genocide committed against Roma during the Second World War. The Roma nation commemorates this tragedy on August 2nd, the date on which over 3,000 Roma were exterminated in the evening of 2nd August 1944 in gas chamber V of “Zigeunerlager BIII” at Auschwitz – Birkenau.

The official recognition of ‘Porrajmos’, the genocide committed against Roma on a national and international level, is of crucial importance to fighting and eliminating the...