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SARAJEVO, August 2 (FENA) – Roma Holocaust Memorial Day is held every year on August 2, to remember the day when 2,897 Roma people were murdered in gas chambers on the night between August 2 and 3, 1944, in the so-called Gipsy family camp at the Auschwitz Nazi concentration camp.
The Council of Europe also accepted this date, and at the initiative of Roma organizations, it has been marked throughout Europe since 2012. In 2015, the European Parliament declared 2 August the annual "European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day" to commemorate the 500,000 Roma – representing at least a quarter of their total population at that time – murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe.
This day was officially included in the official calendar of important dates of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
It is estimated that more than 500,000 Roma were killed in World War II, but the final number has never been determined, the Association of Young Roma "AKSIOM" said.
During July 1942, all Roma from the area of the then NDH were deported to Jasenovac. Unlike most of the other detainees in this concentration camp, upon arrival at the camp, they were not identified by name, but by the number of wagons by which they were brought to the camp.
In addition to Jasenovac, Roma were killed in other Ustasha camps and in hundreds of other locations in the territory of today's Republic of Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and parts of of Serbia.
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