Porajmos
Today is Roma and Sinti Holocaust
Memorial Day (called "Porajmos" or "Destruction" in the
Roma Language.)
The Roma and Sinti (often called
Gypsies) were treated at the same level as the Jews under the 1935 Nuremberg
Laws by the Germans and sent to different Ghettos (Warsaw and Lodz) and then
sent to the Death Camps (Belzec, Treblinka, Auschwitz and Sobibor) where an
estimated 500,000 to 1.5 million Roma and Sinti Men, Women and Children were
murdered.
This picture is one I took in
Cologne, Germany in 2014. It remembers the 1,000 Roma and Sinti from Cologne
that were deported to the ghettos and death camps starting in May 1940.
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