Romani Holocaust Remembrance Day (7 powerful photos)

Deportation of Sinti from southwest Germany, May 22, 1940. The Sinti were escorted by foot through the village under police surveillance. August 2, 2015 /Photography News/ The Romani Holocaust (also known as the Porajmos or the Romani genocide) was the effort during World War II by the government of Nazi Germany and its allies to exterminate the Roma (Gypsy) people of Europe. Declared "racially inferior" by German authorities in the 1940s, much like the Jews, the Roma were victims of a determine...