There were significant numbers of Wehrmacht veterans among the prisoners. The Nazi also feared that a mutiny could spread to other parts of the camp. On May 23, over 1,500 Roma were transferred from Birkenau to Auschwitz, from where they were subsequently transferred to Buchenwald. Two days later, 82 Roma were shipped to the Flossenburg camp and 144 Roma women to Ravensbrueck. Fewer than 3,000 people remained in the Family Camp. The extermination of the Roma in Auschwitz-Birkenau occurred on the night of August 2/3, 1944. Despite resistance by the Roma, 2,897 men, women, and children were loaded on trucks, taken to gas chamber V, and exterminated."
On the 15-th and 16-th of May 2014, Roma from all over the world participated in raising awareness and commemorating this important day for Roma. Both off-line and on-line were made visible through the hastags such as #RomaniResistance #16may #OpreRoma #dignity etc.
RROMA participated in the online actions with its FB covers and profile pictures below:
