Moldovan foreign affairs ministries pays homage to Romanies killed on Holocaust period

Chisinau, 2 August /MOLDPRES/ - The Foreign Affairs and European Integration Ministry (MAEIE) today joins the international community to pay homage to all victims belonging to the Romany ethnic minority who suffered on the period of the World War II, the MAEIE information and media communication service has reported.  

This year, the world marks the 73rd anniversary of the tragic events which took place on the night of 2 to 3 August 1944, when 2,897 Romanies, mostly women, children and elderly people, were massacred in gas chambers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. To commemorate those about half a million of people of Romany origin, exterminated by the Nazi regime and its acolytes, in 2015, the European Parliament proclaimed, under a special resolution, the date of 2 August as European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day.   

Moldova’s authorities have supported and will further back the actions meant to preserve the memory of the Holocaust victims. In this respect, we mention the adoption by the Moldovan parliament, on 22 July 2016, of the Declaration on the acceptance of the Report of the International Commission on Holocaust, chaired by Elie Wiesel, and the subsequent approval by the government of an action plan for the implementation of this declaration; by these acts, Moldova fully got involved in the international community’s efforts to study the Holocaust and commemorate its victims – Jews and Romanies.     

Closely cooperating within the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, Moldova tends to thus bring its contribution to achieving the objectives pursued by the latter, including as to fighting all forms of discrimination and manifestation of ethnic and racial hatred.