![German, Jewish and Roma delegations commemorate Roma Holocaust Memorial Day in the former Nazi-German extermination camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Brzezinka, Poland [Lukasz Gagulski/EPA-EFE]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/ca855d99b3ed471d9b3c620e7f7cc3bd_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
On August 2, 1944, German guards murdered thousands of men, women and children in the camp’s gas chambers.
Roma
![A policewoman checks the papers of a woman at the biggest Roma-populated district amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Sofia, Bulgaria, April 17, 2020 [Dimitar Kyosemarliev/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/a8bbdb7c5a454f24a9f874ccd7e2ab84_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
The coronavirus pandemic exacerbated the ugly, systematic state violence against Romani people.
![Stejar Stan's family home was demolished a day after he was relocated from the Roma community of El Gallinero, on the outskirts of Madrid in 2018 [File photo: September 2018/Susana Vera/Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/03703f20bc814cbc8cd3ab97fd7cae18_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
Thousands of Roma across Europe left to fend for themselves on polluted lands, new study reveals.
![A Roma collector's bin, attached to a motorbike, holds up to 27kg (60lb) of plastic. On a typical day in Skopje, it will be filled twice, generating about $6 in income for the collector [File: DM Saldana/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/918de1cdd9834cc89c3ec9f7c9c9e2b7_18.jpeg?resize=570%2C380)
New effort seeks to formalise grey market recyclable waste collection and highlight Roma...
![Izeta Ahmetovic sits in front of the Roma family's diminishing food reserves amid the national quarantine in Italy [Ariel Sophia Bardi /Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/eb57549c224d415d8d3454754cffc168_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Following quarantine rules is near impossible for many Roma, who do not have financial backup or job security.
![Children from Valea Seaca, a village in northern Romania [Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/2f17295f8c3b4aecb30134a42ab7bf31_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
A portrait of a Romanian village where many of the Roma residents must leave for Scandinavia to make a living.
![A Roma or Sinti girl imprisoned in Auschwitz. Pictures taken by the SS for their files [Wiener Holocaust Library Collections]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/471b7a01c2a0461bbfc168e1143d1d73_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
New London exhibition includes harrowing Nazi directives and testimony from persecuted Roma and Sinti minorities.
![Pope Francis reached out to the minorities of Transylvania during his visit to Romania [Vatican Media via Reuters]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/dfe6eedf355c41b2bd19093c0d78b157_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The pontiff wraps up visit to Romania by asking the ethnic minority for forgiveness for discrimination across Europe.
![Ligia and Daniel Tomescu, Romanian citizens of Roma background in Italy, are running for the European elections [Ylenia Gostoli/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/0a104b68240c447faef360d1206e84a6_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
The Tomescus are running on a left-wing platform as racism increases after Salvini called for census targeting the Roma.
![Casal Bruciato residents, supported by far-right organisation CasaPound, have been protesting for two days against Roma family being given social housing [Christian Minelli/NurPhoto/Getty Images]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/fd8d0d2c338f4ed28ca7c3c8799189e7_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
Neo-fascists protest against a Roma family being given social housing, with one even threatening to ‘rape’ a woman.
![Manix, left, and his wife Valuca, extreme right are Roma from Romania and now live in the UK. They are worried about how Brexit might impact their children's future [Ruairi Casey/Al Jazeera]](/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/b1345189524d418183718e7d97dede25_18.jpeg?resize=270%2C180)
There are 300,000 Roma in Britain, but some members of persecuted minority lack documentation and could lose residency.
Al Jazeera reveals racist practice that plays on superstition among elderly Roma who consider frogs symbol of bad luck.
Al Jazeera follows students defying the odds to go to school, and teachers trying to make education available to all.
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