In minorita civil association, Museum of the Slovak National Uprising in Banská Bystrica, in cooperation with the Institute of Ethnology prepared on the occasion of the Roma Holocaust Memorial Day on 2 August 2013 at the premises of reverence hall of the Museum of the Slovak National Uprising in Banská Bystrica commemorative event and Ceremony.

A memorial ceremony has been held regularly since 2005, as a reminder of the events of 1944. Disposal of the former "Gypsy camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau" was redeemed by the deaths of hundreds of European Roma. Towards the end of the war, inmates available for work were deported from the camp and remaining 2,897 Roma men, women and children were murdered in the gas chambers at night from 2nd to 3rd August 1944.

Invitation 2005
Invitation 2006 - 1
Invitation 2006 - 2
Invitation 2007
Invitation 2008

Do not forget!

The goal of the project Ma Bisteren! - Let’s not forget! is to remind the public of the suffering of the Roma during the Second World War.
The Slovak National Museum in Bratislava and the civic association In Minorita carried out the main realization of this project.

The project consists of two separate components. The first of these encompasses the informational and educational character of the project including the exhibition The Romani Holocaust in Slovakia 1939 – 1945 and an interactive educational program for school children. The second part consists of the installation of commemorative plaques in localities where Romani persecutions occurred in the 1939 – 1945 period.