Sinti and Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

Sinti and Roma Holocaust Memorial Day commemorates the victims of the Romani genocide (Porajmos), a tragedy where an estimated 220,000–500,000 Sinti and Roma were murdered by Nazi Germany and its allies during World War II. Chosen for remembrance, August 2 marks the night of 2–3, 1944, when 2,897 Sinti and Roma, mostly women, children, and the elderly, perished in the Gypsy family camp at Auschwitz.