On August 2, 1944, approximately 3,000 Roma at the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp fell victim to the Nazi regime. In Europe, around 500,000 Roma were killed in the events of the Holocaust. In order to honor the memory of the victims, August 2 was declared the European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day by the European Parliament Resolution of April 15, 2015. Under Law 124/2020, August 2 was created Romania’s National Samudaripen Remembrance Day. The word samudaripen means mass killing in the Roma language. Later, Law 2/2021 passed to prevent and combat Antigypsyism. According to the final report of the International Commission for...