Europe has about 50 million Roma died in the Holocaust
BERLIN, Jan. 27 (Xinhua Liu Xiang) 27, the German Bundestag to commemorate the "International Holocaust Remembrance Day" activities, Roma suffered a commemoration of the Holocaust for the first time the center.
Federal Parliament Speaker Lammert said in a speech, the Nazi regime's brutal persecution of the Roma have long been excluded from public sight. The international community has the responsibility to the victims of any act of hate and exclusion to fight.
survivors of the Holocaust from the Netherlands, 73-year-old Benzoni Weiss said that although some 50 million Roma in Europe died in the Holocaust, but in today's society do not learn from it. Weiss said: "We (Gypsies) is a European, to be with other people have the same rights."
also reported that the day of German President Wulff arrived in Poland, to participate in the Auschwitz concentration camp anniversary of the liberation of 66.
Auschwitz was Nazi Germany during World War II built the largest concentration camp of Auschwitz in southern Poland near the city. Nazi Germany, where several million people imprisoned and killed one of the 110 million people, mostly Jewish victims. Weiss's parents and sisters and many other relatives died in Auschwitz.
1945 年 1 27, the liberation of Auschwitz by Soviet troops. November 2005, the 60th UN General Assembly decided to January 27 each year as "International Holocaust Remembrance Day."
