The yearly events commemorate the 23,000 Roma who were deported from Hungary during the Second World War, many of whom were killed in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the night of August 2, 1944.

The Embassies of Germany, the Netherlands, the UK, Slovakia and Israel joined the U.S. Embassy in laying wreaths in memory of the victims."

Photo: Acting Deputy Chief of Mission Jeffrey Lodinsky lays a wreath in honor of the Roma victims of the Holocaust (Embassy Photo by Linda Mézes)

Source: U.S. Embassy Budapest