Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
Roma Holocaust Memorial Day is held on August 2. Council of Europe, European Parliament. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. 
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On August 2, 1944, nearly 3,000 Roma and Sinti women, men and children were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz-Birkenau.
High-ranking Nazi official Adolf Eichmann first mentioned the murders of Roma and Sinti under the Nazi regime during his war crimes trial in Jerusalem in 1961. In 1968, Romani activists burned caravans in east London in protest and commemoration of the Roma and Sinti fate during the Holocaust, and in 1979, Sinti activists staged a demonstration at Bergen-Belsen. Roma and Sinti activists went on a hunger strike at Dachau in 1980.
The first state recognition of the Roma and Sinti Holocaust finally came in 1982. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany acknowledged that the Nazi regime had persecuted and committed genocide against the Roma and Sinti people on the basis of their race.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
National Day of Remembrance of the Warsaw Uprising in Poland on August 1
Genocide Remembrance Day of the Roma and Sinti in Poland on August 2 (Dzień Pamięci o Zagładzie Romów i Sinti, set on the anniversary of the Roma and Sinti exterminaton at Auschwitz concentration camp, established in 2011);
European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma on August 2
Assyrian Martyrs Day on August 7 (Assyrian community);
Battle of Boyacá Day in Colombia on August 7
National Peacekeepers' Day in Canada on August 9 (celebrated on Sunday closest to the day);
Nagasaki Memorial Day in Japan on August 9 (Nagasaki Peace Park is a park located in Nagasaki, Japan, commemorating the atomic bombing of the city on August 9, 1945 during World War II)
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