North Rhine-Westphalia: Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma

Düsseldorf (dpa/lnw) - The European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma will be celebrated in several places in North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday.

North Rhine-Westphalia: Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma

Düsseldorf (dpa/lnw) - The European Holocaust Remembrance Day for Sinti and Roma will be celebrated in several places in North Rhine-Westphalia on Tuesday. In Düsseldorf, the commemoration of the bronze figure of a little girl by the artist Otto Pankok (1893-1966) is planned in the city center. In 2015, the European Parliament declared Holocaust Remembrance Day to commemorate the more than 500,000 Roma and Sinti who were murdered in Nazi-occupied Europe. The bronze sculpture commemorates a girl named Ehra, who was deported to a camp from Düsseldorf and survived.

Representatives of Carmen, the International Roma Culture and Sports Association in Düsseldorf, want to remember with a speech, poems and flowers. An event is also planned in Minden.