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Members of the Roma community at the Roma Holocaust Memorial Event 2015. ©Photo by Derek Speirs -
Roma Holocaust Memorial Event 2015. Pictured left to right: Manu Paun, Gabi Muntean and Ricardo Munteanu. ©Photo by Derek Speirs -
Ezechiel Zlatariu (in the foreground) at the Roma Holocaust Memorial Event 2015. ©Photo by Derek Speirs -
Members of the Roma & Traveller community marking Roma Holocaust Day. Pictured left to right Daniel Spirache, Cathy Lawrence, Manu Paun, Diana Paun, Bianca Paun and Jay Stanciu. ©Photo by Derek Speirs -
Roma community members in Ireland campaigning for the removal of a pig farm from the site of a Roma concentration camp in Lety, Czech Republic. -
Each year on 2 August, we mark Roma Genocide Remembrance Day, to commemorate the Roma who suffered during the Nazi era. This day marks the anniversary of the extermination of 3,000 Roma and Sinti in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944.
An estimated 11 million people were murdered during the Second World War because of their nationality, ethnicity, sexuality, disability, religious belief, political affiliation or because they were prisoners of war. The largest single group of people to be murdered during the Holocaust were 6 million Jews. It is estimated that over 500,000 Roma and Sinti died during the Holocaust. At least another 500,000 were displaced and dispossessed, their identity papers lost or destroyed. The Holocaust marked a deep trauma in the Roma community and impacted the whole community deeply.
Roma Remembrance Visit to Auschwitz 2018.
Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative 2018 Participants
Roma Commemoration 2017
Roma Holocaust Memorial 2017 (Speakers at the event included Guest of honour, Sabina Higgins, Professor Ethel Brooks, Lynn Jackson, Damaris & Bianca Paun and the event was chaired by Gabi Muntean). ©Photo by Derek Speirs
Roma Genocide Remembrance 2016
Campaign for pig farm to be removed from Lety concentration camp
Tica Muntean paying respect to victims of the Roma genocide
Background information about Roma and the Holocaust
Statement by Rita Izsák, UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues