It is not widely known that during World War II, like Jews, the members of the Roma community were oppressed for racial reasons by the Nazi regime; tens of thousands of Roma were murdered in the occupied Eastern territories and thousands of them were killed in extermination camps.
Sabiedrības lielākā daļa nezina, ka Otrā pasaules kara laikā čigānu kopienas pārstāvjus, tāpat kā ebrejus, nacistu režīms apspieda rasistisku iemeslu dēļ; okupētajās austrumu teritorijās nogalināja desmitiem tūkstošu čigānu un vairāki tūkstoši no viņiem tika nogalināti nāves nometnēs.