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SARAJEVO, August 2 (FENA) – Roma Holocaust Memorial Day is marked 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.
At the initiative of the association "Kali Sara - Roma Information Center" in BiH, August 2 is also marked in 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.
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, stated Kali Sara - Roma Information Center.
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