What is porrajmos? Even in 2016, many people have never heard of the Roma Holocaust, in which, experts agree, at least half a million Roma died under Nazi Germany’s extermination policies. Given the difficulties of collecting reliable data, this figure may even be higher.
Many Roma were killed in gas chambers. Many died of exhaustion from hard labour, disease and starvation in concentration camps and ghettos or on “death marches”.
Children and adults were murdered in brutal experiments...
Articles by Snežana Samardžić-Marković, Director General of DG Democracy
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By Snežana Samardžić-Marković Director General for Democracy, Council of Europe
18 July 2016
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