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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.

On 26 February 1943, the first transport of Roma and Sinti people from Germany arrived at the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp complex.

This Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD), we will come together to learn and remember. One way to engage in meaningful conversation around HMD is to share and listen to survivor experiences. This blog will show you five different ways you could use survivor experiences in your HMD activity this year.

Eva Clarke BEM was born under unimaginably harrowing circumstances in the final days of World War II. Her birth, on 29 April 1945, just outside the gates of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria, came just one day after the Nazis had run out of gas for the chambers and less than a week before liberation by the US Army.

‘Who would have thought that my journey would take me from the hell of Auschwitz to tea at Buckingham Palace?!’ Attending a Royal Garden Party with Lily is a memory that will stay with me forever, and one that I will always treasure.