International Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Sinti and Roma
(Romani -Gypsy- Families
in the Belzec Death Camp, German-occupied Poland, not realizing that they will
soon be gassed.)
Today (August 2nd)
is International Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Roma and Sinti.
(Romani -Gypsy - Men, Women and
Children in the Belzec Death Camp, in German-occupied Poland, not realizing
that they will soon be gassed.)
The Germans and their Allied murdered
1.5 Million Roma and Sinti (Gypsies) throughout German-Occupied Europe during
World War 2.
The Roma and Sinti lost their
German Citizenships (along with the Jews) when the Nuremberg Race Laws were passed
in 1935.
A total of 23,000 Roma and Sinti
were deported to the Auschwitz Death Camp in German-Occupied Poland and
imprisoned there in the “Gypsy Family Camp” (German: Zigeunerfamilienlager) starting
in February 1943.
Unlike the other Prisoners of Auschwitz
(except the Czechoslovak Jews in the Theresienstadt Family Camp - German:
Theresienstädter Familienlager - who were kept at Auschwitz so the Swiss Red
Cross could visit them at the Death Camp the same way they had visited them at
the Theresienstadt Ghetto in German-Occupied Czechoslovakia) the Roma and Sinti
were allowed to keep their Hair, wear Civilian Clothes and kept away from the
other Prisoners.
At the end of July 1944, all
healthy Roma and Sinti Prisoners (3,000 of them) were shipped from Auschwitz to
different German Concentration Camps to do Forced Labor.
On the night of August 2nd-3rd,
1944, all the remaining Roma and Sinti Prisoners at the Gypsy Camp in Auschwitz
(mostly the Elderly, the Disabled, Women and Children) were sent to the Gas Chambers
and murdered.
5,600 Roma and Sinti Men,
Women and Children died that night.
Of the 23,000 Roma and Sinti
deported to Auschwitz: 3,000 were sent to other Concentration Camps, 13,600
succumbed to planned Malnutrition, Diseases and Epidemics and 5,600 were Gassed
to Death.
In total 1.2 Million Roma and
Sinti Men, Women and Children were murdered during the War.
After the War (from 1945 to 1979)
the West German Government did not recognize the Roma and Sinti as Nazi Victims
and so didn’t give them any Reparations.
In 1979 the West German Supreme
Court finally acknowledged that the Nazis had persecuted and murdered the Roma
and Sinti due to the Race and so West Germany started giving the Victims
Reparations.
The East German Government (along
with the Communist Governments of: the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary, Albania, Yugoslavia and Romania) never recognized the Roma and Sinti
as Nazi Victims.
In fact, from 1945 until the
1990s, the Communist Governments Imprisoned and Forcibly Sterilized the Roma
and Sinti.
After Germany reunited in 1990
the German Government continued and continued to this day to give Reparations to
the Roma and Sinti Victims.
Today, the Roma and Sinti
continue to be openly discriminated against and attacked throughout Europe.
A 2019 Poll found: 83% of Italians,
76% of Slovaks, 72% of Greeks, 68% of Bulgarians, 66% of Czechs, 61% of
Lithuanians, 61% of Hungarians, 52% of Russians, 51% of Poles, 44% of French, 40%
of Spaniards and 37% of Germans
Do not like or trust the Roma and
Sinti People and believe they should be kept separate from the rest of the
Population.
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