Gypsies gather in Birkenau to pay respect to concentration camp victims

Birkenau during the war represented the largest concentration camp and marked a major location where gypsies from all over Europe were brought and brutally murdered or gassed. At the same ceremony, Roman Kwiatkowski, president for the Gypsy Society of Poland criticized racial prejudice and intolerance that Gypsies are currently suffering, particularly in central and eastern Europe. (Zycie Warszawy, page 2)