European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day: Remembering a tragedy

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It's one the less known chapters of WWII: the Nazis' racially-based massacre of anywhere between a quarter and half a million Roma on top of the more than six million Jews killed in the Holocaust. Roma victims were also subjected to internment, forced labour, deportation and mass execution, though the journey to having the genocide against the community recognized as such has been more complicated. For more analysis, FRANCE 24's Erin Ogunkeye is joined by Historian Joey Rauschenberger.

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