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On 13 June 1938 German police began a week of operations against Roma and Sinti people in Germany.

Li-Da Kruger, an award-winning filmmaker and producer, was born in Cambodia in 1974. She was evacuated from her homeland as a young baby, just days before the Khmer Rouge orchestrated the genocide that claimed around two million lives between 1975 and 1979

The HMDT Next Gen Ambassador Programme is a prestigious programme by the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT), designed to empower the next generation of leaders aged 18–25 to shape a future free from identity-based hatred and persecution.

This article was written for HMDT by Sarah Matthias, the author of 'A Berlin Love Song'.

During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.