Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day

Today is the 79th anniversary of the night when the Axis massacred 2,897 Roma in Auschwitz. They were part of the 220,000–500,000 Roma & Sinti whom the Axis massacred in a tragedy known as the Porajmos. It was, in brief, another way for the white petty bourgeoisie to maintain its economic standing.

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The oppression of the Roma & Sinti varied throughout the Third Reich

Alsace, France became a testing ground for the Third Reich’s anti-Roma policies

The persecution of Rom & Sinti in Fascist Italy

West Germany’s Federal Court ruled that a 1940 deportation of Roma was not a racist atrocity