On August 2, Roma Genocide Remembrance Day, we honor the innocent men, women, and children who were repressed and exterminated in Nazi death camps as “undesirable, harmful elements of society.”
Only on the night of August 2 to 3, 1944, about 3000 Roma died in the gas chambers of the Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. Historians estimate that between 200,000 and 1,500,000 Roma were killed during World War II.
According to Ukrainian historians, the Nazis killed about 25,000 Roma on the territory of Ukraine during World War II. Several hundred of them were probably shot in Babyn Yar, a ravine in Kyiv that witnessed massive crimes committed by the Nazi repressive machine.
Today, the Russian invaders have brought horrors to Ukrainian soil that it has not seen since World War II.
The Russian terrorist state is committing brutal war crimes and genocide, seeking to destroy all who associate themselves with an independent Ukraine and do not want to live in Putin’s concentration camp.
In a fierce struggle, the brave men and women of Ukraine are fighting not only for the freedom of their country but also for the right of people of all ethnic backgrounds to live freely on Ukrainian soil.
Evil must be stopped and punished.
