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Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

Question for Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

UIN HL6994, tabled on 20 July 2020

To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to mark Roma Holocaust Memorial Day on 2 August.

Answered on

31 July 2020

Every year we honour the memory of the Roma and Sinti population murdered by the Nazi's at the annual Holocaust Memorial Day commemorations on 27 January. The 2nd of August marks the liquidation of the Gypsy Family camp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau and this year due to the restrictions on gatherings brought about by the Covid -19 pandemic we will be honouring the memory of the Roma and Sinti men, women and children murdered by the Nazi's on social media.