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Roma in Poland seeks compensations from Germany
Warsaw / Poland (RNN Correspondent) 26.02.1998
About 2,000 Roma who were persecuted by the Nazis during World War II will seek compensation from Germany, Roman Kwiatkowski saidone on Monday. he gave a list with the first 137 names to the German ambassador in Warsaw. It was unclear when the rest of the names would be presented. Roma victims of the Holocaust around Europe are trying to obtain compensation from Germany. But it is proving difficult because many were unregistered in their native lands, or unregistered by the Nazis. There are some 60,000 Roma, living in Poland. Like Jews, Roma were rounded up, brutalized, interned, deported, and killed by Nazi Germany. Between a half-million and 700.000 were killed.
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