U.S. Embassy Report: Remembering The Roma Holocaust
- 6 Aug 2012 9:00 AM
On August 2, commemoration events were held around Hungary in memory of the Roma victims of the Holocaust. Ambassador Eleni Tsakopoulos Kounalakis lit a candle at the Holocaust Memorial Center at an event co-organized by the Tom Lantos Institute. Award winning author and Holocaust survivor Aranka Siegal also participated in this event. Mrs. Siegal’s visit to Hungary, where she is meeting with youth and discussing tolerance related issues, is being supported by the U.S. Embassy.
At another commemoration in Nehru Park at the Roma Holocaust Memorial, Public Affairs Counselor Karyn Posner-Mullen laid a wreath. These yearly events commemorate the 23,000 Roma who were deported from Hungary during the Second World War, many of whom were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the night of August 2, 1944.
Source: U.S. Embassy Budapest
Photo: Ambassador Kounalakis and Holocaust survivor and award winning author Aranka Siegal stand in a moment of silence. (Embassy Photo: Attila Németh)
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