While recent scholarship has begun to improve our understanding of this terrible atrocity, many of the details remain unknown. In November of 1935, the Nazi German government amended its Nuremburg Laws, which codified its agenda for racial purity, to officially include the Sinti and Roma community among those labeled as “racially inferior.” Following their inclusion in the Nuremburg Laws, Sinti and Roma people were arbitrarily and forcibly deported to so-called “Zigeunerlager” (“Gypsy Camps”) from across Nazi-occupied Europe. On April 15 of 2015, the European Parliament adopted a resolution that established August 2 as the annual international observance of this date, which is also officially commemorated on a national basis in a growing number of countries. This date is devoted to the Roma Genocide, which took place during World War II as a result of the racial purification efforts by Nazi Germany and its Axis Powers allies. On this day, August 2, the Auschwitz Institute for the Prevention of Genocide and Mass Atrocities commemorates International Roma Genocide Remembrance Day.
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