Each year on 2nd August, Romani communities across Europe gather to mark the anniversary of a crime that too many still do not know took place. On the night of 2nd August in 1944, nearly 3,000 Sinti and Roma men, women and children were murdered in a single night at Auschwitz-Birkenau. It was not the beginning, nor the end, of their persecution – but it was one of the darkest chapters in a long, brutal story.

This story is still not told in most schools. In Britain, as in many other countries, the persecution and genocide of the Sinti and Roma during the Nazi era is not explicitly referenced in the national curriculum.