On Monday, November 15, 1943, the main organizer of the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler, issued an order to complete the mass extermination of another ethnic group: the European Roma.
Trees were planted at the forthcoming Lety Memorial, a memorial and museum scheduled to open in February.
Another article on the recent Hungarian Census. The overall population decreased by 3.4%, and, more astonishingly, the number of Roma passed from 300’000 to 200’000. All other “ethnic” minorities, Germans, Slovaks, etc. also decreased but not by as much as in the case of Roma.
The 300’000 number was anyhow a fallacy, as the government itself acknowledges more than half a million. So simply, Roma did not declare themselves as such …
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