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International Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day

International Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day

2014, 1 min

August 2, 2017, Kyiv.

The video shows the solemn events for the International Roma Holocaust Day in Babyn Yar. The "Roma Campervan" monument, a procession with lamps, laying flowers, representatives of diplomatic missions, a bonfire. Comments: theater actress Maryna Kravchuk; Kyiv resident, poet Rene Romani.

Reference: Roma Holocaust Day is celebrated all over the world. In 1944, on the night of August 3, the Nazis exterminated almost three thousand Roma near the Polish concentration camp "Auschwitz-Birkenau". Tens of thousands were also exterminated in Babyn Yar.