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Monument to Slovak Romanies killed in WWII unveiled

22 October 2012
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A monument to 26 Romanies who were brutally killed during World War Two was unveiled in Dubnica nad Vahom today.

The execution took place 62 years ago on the orders of the German command of the Dubnica internment camp at which some 700 people were kept.

There are now seven small monuments commemorating the suffering of Romanies during the war in Slovakia and the main memorial to the Romany Holocaust victims is planned to be built in Bratislava.

“The monument in Dubnica is the first with the concrete names of the victims that were discovered in the archives. We want to build one more small monument in Komarno (south Slovakia), but we are also seeking to build a central memorial that will probably be in Bratislava,” said Zuzana Kumanova from the Ma bisteren! project within which the fates of Slovak Romanies who died during WWII are commemorated.

According to historian Karol Janas, typhus epidemic broke out in the Dubnica internment camp 62 years ago. The camp command said it was sending almost 30 Romanies to a hospital in Trencin but instead it had them shot dead on the premises of a nearby factory. There is talk that some of them were buried alive.

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