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1944
Poland
Antigypsyism

Liberation of Majdanek

Soviet forces liberated the Majdanek concentration and extermination camp, uncovering evidence of mass murder and suffering. Of tens of thousands of Roma imprisoned in Nazi camps, only a few thousand survived, their return marking the beginning of a difficult postwar reckoning.

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