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European Holocaust Memorial Day for Roma and Sinti

On August 2, 1944, the last 4,300 Sinti and Roma were murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau. In 2015, the European Parliament declared this date the European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma.

My wife Basia and I traveled to Krakow to participate in the 3-day commemorative events and ceremonies which included the Polish première of O Lungo Drom (The Long Road), my oratorio on the Sinti and Roma people, in the Krakow Philharmonic on August 1, 2024. This year’s 80th anniversary welcomed representatives of parliaments and governments from many countries around the world, including, for the first time, the President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, Mr. Theodoros Rousopoulos, the President of the German Parliament, Ms. Bärbel Bas, and the Marshal of the Polish Senate, Ms. Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska.