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Europe remembers Sinti, Roma murdered under Nazi rule
On August 2, 1944, 4,300 Sinti and Roma were killed in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Genocide survivors described the horrors.
- Deutsche Welle
To this day, many of their descendants are refused compensation.
“Dear Banetla, I have to tell you that my two youngest children have died.”
Those words were written by Margarete Bamberger in a 1943 letter to her sister in Berlin.
It was smuggled out of what was known as the “gypsy camp” at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
Margarete, her husband Willi and their children were all detained at the death camp.
Margarete and Willi survived the ordeal.
Their children did…