Remembrance of the Holocaust is time for continental soul searching for Europe’s Romani peoples | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles

Commemorations marking the 71st anniversary of the Roma holocaust were held throughout Europe over the weekend including at Auschwitz-Birkenau, where 2,897 Roma men, women, children were killed on August 2, 1944. Roma or Romani is ethnic identifier held by a variety of peoples including: Roma, Gypsies, Travellers, Manouches, Ashkali, Sinti and Boyash. It’s estimated that 220,000…