This year marks the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz on 27 January 1945, closely following the liquidation of the “Zigeunerlager” (“Gypsy-Camp”) on 2 August 1944, when 2,897 elderly people, women and children, all of them the remaining Sinti and Roma in the so-called “Gypsy-Camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau, were murdered in the gas chambers there. This was the climax of the Final Solution of the Gypsy Question. The Nazis intended to exterminate the Roma completely. Those lessons from the Holocaust have not been fully transposed into the general knowledge of the people in our societies.
