Every year on 2nd August, Genocide of the Roma Memorial Day, Europe remembers the hundreds of thousands of Roma and Sinti people persecuted and murdered during the Nazi era. The real question is what happens on 3rd August – and every day thereafter asks Michaela Küchler in an OpEd für Euronews. #EuropeNews
By Michaela Küchler, Secretary General of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance
Published on
02/08/2026 - 6:45 GMT+2
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews.
Victims of persecution can be lost twice: first when their lives are taken, and then when their names are quietly mislaid by history.
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