Marburg / Germany (RNN Agency) 22.04.1998

For many years nobody ever spoke of the Roma who had also badly suffered of the Nazi terror. Now, in Marburg this is increasingly brought home to the people: Since some time there hangs a commemorative tablet on the wall of the former district administrati on, reminding of the fact that from this point on 23 March 1942 the Roma of Marburg were sent to the concentration camps and consequently to death. Yesterday, exactly 56 years later, there was a commemoration ceremony reminding of those atrocities.

Daniel and Heinz Strauß who are the representatives of the Roma, the mayor Egon Vaupel, and the town councillor Heinrich Loewer, laid down a wreath.A commemoration ceremony followed in the town hall, where witnesses of the times reported about the destin y of the deported people.