Roma Holocaust commemorated in Budapest

A conference was held to mark the anniversary of the Roma Holocaust in Budapest on Thursday. Addressing the event, Katalin Victor Langer noted that in May 1944 Roma prisoners of Auschwitz turned against their Nazi captors and fought heroically for their own survival. She noted the importance of commemorating tragedies such as the Roma Holocaust as part of Hungary's collective conscience. Szabolcs Molnar, the deputy mayor of the fourth district in northern Budapest, noted that on July 11 in 1944 ten thousand Jewish and Roma men and women were taken from Ujpest to Nazi death camps.