(2 Aug 2019) Romania on Friday commemorated the deaths of thousands of Roma at a Nazi concentration camp, as Holocaust survivors recalled the horrors of more than 70 years ago.
Romania's Culture Minister Daniel Breaz said ''there were moments, we could describe as more delicate, let's not call them difficult or unpleasant, delicate moments, when unpleasant things happened and certain minorities suffered''.
Breaz added that the ceremony was an opportunity to "bring to the attention not only of the Romanians, but the whole Romanian nation, to the entire Europe and the entire world, that we respect these minorities."
The Elie Wiesel Institute for the Study of the Holocaust in Romania says 50,000 Roma were deported to Trans-Dniester in the Soviet Union and 11,000 died under persecution by the Nazis.
Romania has a population of more than one million Roma, many are poor and still face prejudice.
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