New Delhi: World War II witnessed many devastating incidents, but very few can match the tragedy of the Holocaust, the genocide of European Jews and Romani people during that period. The hate propagated by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Germany killed millions of innocent people, tearing apart lives and murdering even children. The Romani Holocaust was one such mass murder, in which Nazi Germany and its World War II allies committed ethnic cleansing and eventually genocide against European Roma and Sinti people. To honour the victims, every year on August 2, Roma Holocaust Memorial Day is celebrated. In this article, we will learn more about it.
Why was August 2 chosen as the day?
August 2 was chosen as the day because on the night of August 2-3 in 1944, 2,897 Roma, mostly children, children, elderly people and women were killed in the Gypsy family camp at Auschwitz concentration camp. It was part of the Romani Holocaust perpetrated by the Nazi Germany.
What happened during the Romani Holocaust?
Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Party, after coming to power in Germany, began to spread hatred based on race and religion and actively resorted to genocide to fulfill their heinous goals. Led by Hitler, on November 26, 1935, a supplementary decree to the Nuremberg Laws was issued that classified the Romani people as the enemies of the ‘race-based state’. They were placed in the same category as the Jews and the fates of people from both communities became parallel.
According to the historians, the Nazi Germany and its allies killed between 250,000 and 500,000 Romani and Sinti people. Notably at that time, there were fewer than 1 million Roma in Europe. In December 1942, the Nazi party deported most of the Roma from the Greater Germanic Reich to the specially established Gypsy concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The crimes of the Nazi Germany to the Romani people were accepted in 1982 by West Germany. In 2011, Poland officially adopted August 2 as a day to commemorate the genocide of Romani people.
The hate propagated by Adolf Hitler and his Nazi Germany killed millions of innocent people, tearing apart lives and murdering even children. The Romani Holocaust was one such mass murder. knowledge Knowledge News, Photos and Videos on General Knowledge
