In connection with the upcoming Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day (August 2), the ethnographer, historian and currently advisor to the Slovak Minister of Justice in the field of human rights, Zuzana Kumanová stated that about 22,000 European Roma passed through the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, and about 19,000 of them never returned.
As usual, this is factually right, but effectively wrong. There were 22’000 REGISTERED Roma in Auschwitz. But by the same token, “only” roughly 300 thousand Jews. People who were immediately killed were not registered.
- Kumanová: Z tábora Auschwitz-Birkenau sa nevrátilo asi 19.000 Rómov. In: Teraz. 31.07.2022. https://www.teraz.sk/slovensko/kumanova-z-tabora-auschwitz-birkenau/651028-clanok.html?utm_source=teraz&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=click&utm_content=.%253Bw%253BwSpr%25C3%25A1vy%253BSpr%25C3%25A1vy%253BSlovensko%253Bimg
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