Roma women association  „Bolja budućnost“ from Tuzla, in co-operation with Roma women‘s network „Uspjeh“ in B&H  with financial support of OAK Foundation, Open Society Foundation B&H and OSCE mission in B&H, is organizing a visit to the memorial centre in Donja Gradina on August 2nd, 2019, at 12:00.

The aim of the visit is a commemoration for  Roma victims during the World War II.

Second August is etablished by Council of Europe as international Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, on this date, 1944, over 3000 Roma men, women, and children were murdered in the gas chambers of Auschwitz.

It is estimated that around 500.000 Roma were killed during the World War II, but the final number would never be determined.

At the place of the death of Roma , Jews, Serbs, anti-fascists and others, in the town of Donja Gradina is a mass graves where the Independent State of Croatia buried about 40,000 Roma, brutally murdered. Most of them werewere kids, woman and eldery people.

Apologize came after more than 70 years, in 2014, from the Vice President of the German Parliament, Claudia Roth.

By marking this date we honor and remembrance Roma and other innocent victims during the  World War II, and we invite you to join us.