On the occasion of Roma Holocaust Memorial Day an international conference will be held about how Romani memory is presented in arts and culture - the forms and resources for preserving and interpreting it - as well as how to combat antigypsyism.

The conference will be held on 1 August in Cracow, Poland and is organized by the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, the Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma, the European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, and ternYpe, the International Network of Romani Youth.

On 2 August, on the grounds of the former Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz, the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma, the Association of Roma in Poland, and the Auschwitz Museum will hold the annual commemorative ceremony for Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. This year, for the 75th anniversary, eyewitnesses, survivors, their relatives, representatives of governments worldwide, and delegations from various international organizations will attend.

During the night of 2 August and the early morning hours of 3 August 1944, the Nazis murdered almost 2 898 Romani and Sinti people in the gas chambers of the concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau.

Other Romani people were murdered in the concentration camps in Chełmno, Treblinka, Majdanek, Sobibór and Bełżec.

Still other Romani people whose numbers are difficult to estimate were shot dead and then buried in mass graves in the forest. Romani people from all over Europe mark 2 August as Roma Holocaust Memorial Day.

The day was officially promulgated by the European Parliament in 2015 as “European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day”. It commemorates the 500 000 Roma and Sinti who were murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe.

The European peoples cultivate different historical narratives, have different customs and cultural patterns, and the relation of different prejudices towards the different. But it also unites them: in all European countries, the most discriminated ethnic community is the Roma.

The tragic and sad history of the Roma community in Europe culminated during the Second World War, where parts of the continent were overshadowed by the famous Nazi genocide over the Jews. a thorough ethnic cleansing of the Roma and Sinti population was conducted.

The Croats, and some of them: the Ustashas from the end of 1942 in Jasenovac, were able to eliminate unwanted fellow citizens, and elsewhere they liquidated almost all Roma who lived on the territory of the NDH.
The genocide on the Roma for decades has been hushed up and flowed in recent years by the public could be heard in the Croatian public more about these terrible events.

As part of efforts to save the tragedy of Croatian Roma, recently built at the Institute of Social Sciences, Ivo Pilar and the German foundation Erinnerung, Verantwortung und Zukunft - EVZ published the book "Roma in the Second World War in the IDH 1941.- 1945 ", is conceived as a teacher manual. The book was presented this year's Cliofest, the most important Croatian manifestation for the popularization of historical facts, which was held in Zagreb.