01/08/2026
Today, at Nasc, we remember the victims of the Romani Holocaust, also known as the Porajmos ("the Devouring").
During the Holocaust, an estimated 200,000 to 1.5 million Roma people were murdered by N**i Germany and its collaborators across Europe. The exact number remains unknown due to inadequate documentation and the historical marginalisation of Roma communities. Alongside Jewish people, Roma were among the few groups systematically targeted for extermination on the basis of their ethnicity.
Before the Holocaust, Europe's Roma population numbered only around two million, meaning that an immense proportion of the community was lost.
These figures do not capture the countless Roma people who were stripped of their citizenship, imprisoned in concentration camps, enslaved, separated from their families, subjected to forced medical experimentation without consent or anaesthesia, tortured, and sexually assaulted.
For decades after the war, the suffering of Roma communities went largely unrecognised. It was not until 2016 that the German government agreed to provide a one-time payment of €2,500 to a limited number of surviving victims as a form of reparation.
Today, we honour the memory of those who were murdered and otherwise affected by this tragedy, we stand in solidarity with Roma communities and reaffirm our commitment to challenging anti-Roma racism and ensuring that this history is never forgotten. Opre Roma!
