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Roma Holocaust Remembrance: The Complicit Silence of History’s Bystanders and the Persistence of Anti-Roma Racism

Roma activists from Miskolc at the 2016 Roma Pride Event in Budapest hold banners reading "Dignity for all" and "We are staying in Miskolc!" Photo by Nora Tyeklar

August 2nd is known in a number of European countries as Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. It is a significant day in history because 80 years ago on the night of August 2nd, 1944 the Nazis killed the more than 4,200 Roma and Sinti incarcerated in the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp in gas chambers, effectively liquidating […]

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The Roma struggle from protests to political liberation

Note from LeftEast editors: In marking the Roma Holocaust Memorial Day in Europe on August 2, we reprint this article on anti-Roma racism in Europe and the struggles for the collective unification and liberation of Roma. The article first appeared on Roarmag.Org, and is shared here with permission. We also link a recent podcast with […]