Warsaw / Poland (RNN Correspondent) 10.02.1998

A permanent exhibition about the genocide of the Nazis on Roma is being planned in the former concentration camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1998.

A speaker confirmed on Tuesday that the management of the memorial site and representatives of the Roma from Poland, Czechia, and Germany have agreed upon plans that will be submitted at a meeting in April. The museum will make a prisoners’ hut available f or this purpose.

For many years Sinti and Roma have demanded an exhibition dedicated to their victims of the Nazi regime. During the Second World War the National Socialists had deported more than 100,000 Sinti and Roma from the European countries that were occupied by the Germans, to Auschwitz. Most of them died of hunger, epidemics, and of medical tests. On 2 August 1944, the last 3,000 survivors were murdered in the gas chambers of Birkenau.