[Mb-civic] Gypsies Remember Their Dead at Auschwitz

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Gypsies Remember Their Dead at Auschwitz

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-poland-auschwitz-gypsies,0,4194812.story?coll=sns-ap-world-headlines

"OSWIECIM, Poland -- Gypsies from across Europe gathered at Auschwitz 
Monday to remember hundreds of thousands of their murdered ancestors and to 
call for wider recognition of their suffering in the Nazi Holocaust."

"The ceremony, exactly 60 years after the night the Nazis gassed the last 
2,900 Gypsies in the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp, also heard warnings 
that today's Gypsies still face discrimination, especially in eastern Europe."

"Up to half a million European Gypsies are believed to have perished at the 
Nazis' hands during World War II along with 6 million Jews, though the 
exact number is not known. Others were sterilized or subjected to grisly 
pseudo-medical experiments."

"The Nazis considered Gypsies racially inferior and "anti-social." Many 
were deported to a special section of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration 
camp complex in occupied Poland."



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