Roma Death Toll in Europe during the Holocaust
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August 2 marks Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, a date of remembrance for the hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti murdered by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War.
On the night of August 2, 1944, the so-called Zigeunerlager (“Gypsy Camp”) at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liquidated. Nearly 3,000 Roma men, women, and children were murdered in gas chambers. This was not an isolated event but part of a wider, systematic genocide that claimed the lives of an estimated 220,000 to 500,000 Roma across Europe—often referred to as the Porajmos (the “devouring”).
Sources :
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (USHMM)
General statistics and country-specific estimates on the Roma (Sinti and Romani) genocide
📎 [https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/genocide-of-european-roma-sinti-and-roma]()Council of Europe – Roma Genocide Remembrance Initiative
Country-by-country breakdowns and educational resources.
📎 [https://www.coe.int/en/web/roma-genocide]()Wikipedia – Romani Holocaust / Porajmos
📎 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romani\_Holocaust]()The National WWII Museum (U.S.) – "The Genocide of the Roma"
Overview of Porajmos with selected regional examples.
📎 [https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/genocide-roma]()
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