On 2 August, we will commemorate the Roma Holocaust perpetrated during the Second World War. It is an important occasion to draw renewed attention to this largely ignored page of Europe’s recent history. And it remains equally crucial to confront the deeply-rooted prejudices, stereotypes and myths that form the bedrock for persisting, widespread discrimination against the Roma.
During the Roma Holocaust, hundreds of thousands of children, women and men of Roma origin were killed, many of them deported and exterminated in concentration camps.
Others were victims of painful medical experiments.
