Genocide Remembrance Day of the Roma and Sinti in Poland
Genocide Remembrance Day of the Roma and Sinti in Poland is held 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. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. 
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Every year, since the beginning of the 1990s, mourning ceremonies commemorating the extermination of the Roma and Sinti are held at the site of the former Auschwitz-Birkenau camp. By establishing the Remembrance Day for the Extermination of the Roma and Sinti, the Sejm of the Republic of Poland gave the celebration an official dimension.
August 2 this year. once again we are celebrating the Remembrance Day for the Extermination of the Roma and Sinti established by the Sejm through a resolution on July 29, 2011.
- As a tribute to the Roma and Sinti, victims of the German Nazi genocide, the Seym of the Republic of Poland declares August 2 as the Day of Remembrance for the Extermination of the Roma and Sinti - we read in the document.
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