The Day of Remembrance of the Genocide of the Roma in World War II, commemorated on August 2. "Porajmos" is a Roma name for the genocide against Roma.
On August 2, 1944, one night, 2,897 Roma were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. Half a million Roma were killed during World War II. Tens of thousands of Roma suffered and are from the former Yugoslavia.
Bosnia and Herzegovina is the only European state to prevent genocide against Roma, thanks to the decisive action of Bosniak prominent figures who in 1941 formed a Roma Rescue Board.
Already in May of the following year, a Resolution was adopted declaring Roma as an integral part of the Bosniak people, thus protecting the Roma people from this racist law.
