European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma
European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma is held on August 2. This event in the first decade of the month August is annual. 
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During National Socialism, Sinti and Roma were systematically persecuted and murdered. On August 2, we commemorate the last 4,300 Sinti and Roma of the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, who were murdered by the SS on this night in 1944 despite fierce resistance.
In 2015, the European Parliament designated August 2 as the official day of remembrance for the Nazi genocide of the Sinti and Roma.
After the war, the process of coming to terms with the past was slow. Racist discrimination continues to this day.
Similar holidays and events, festivals and interesting facts
National Day of Remembrance of the Warsaw Uprising in Poland on August 1
Roma Holocaust Memorial Day on August 2 (Council of Europe, European Parliament);
Genocide Remembrance Day of the Roma and Sinti in Poland on August 2 (Dzień Pamięci o Zagładzie Romów i Sinti, set on the anniversary of the Roma and Sinti exterminaton at Auschwitz concentration camp, established in 2011);
Assyrian Martyrs Day on August 7 (Assyrian community);
Battle of Boyacá Day in Colombia on August 7
National Peacekeepers' Day in Canada on August 9 (celebrated on Sunday closest to the day);
Nagasaki Memorial Day in Japan on August 9 (Nagasaki Peace Park is a park located in Nagasaki, Japan, commemorating the atomic bombing of the city on August 9, 1945 during World War II)