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Remembrance day
Since one third of the citizens of Belarus died under Nazism, Belarusians see the crimes of Nazism as a genocide of all the inhabitants of the country; this is why Belarus has not established a memorial day for commemorating victims of the Roma and Sinti genocide. Roma and Sinti killed by the Nazis are commemorated in Belarus annually on 22nd June, when the country commemorates all the victims of the Great Patriotic War (World War II), and also on other days related to the war.
According to the OSCE (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) (Education on the Holocaust and on Anti-Semitism, p. 71), the Holocaust is referred to as "the destruction of the Jewish population of Europe by the Nazis during World War II". The extermination of other national minorities is also mentioned briefly in certain textbooks.
There is no officially designated Holocaust memorial day in Belarus. However, since 2006, Belarus has observed 27th January as the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. In addition, commemorative events are held annually on 2nd March, the date of the major anti-Jewish pogroms in the Minsk ghetto, and on 9th May, the Victory Day.