Summary
- German and European officials, along with survivors, commemorate the mass murder of thousands of Sinti and Roma people 80 years ago during Nazi rule.
- On August 2, 1944, German guards killed 4,300 men, women, and children at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
- In total, 500,000 Sinti and Roma fell victim to Nazi crimes.
- The genocide is marked on Friday as the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma.
