On Thursday July 24^th, at noon, the Council of Europe will hold its annual ceremony in Strasbourg to honour the memory of the Roma victims of the Holocaust. The ceremony will take place on the lawn in front of the Palais de l’Europe, next to the “Human Rights” sculpture. As they stated from Strasbourg, the initiative is open to staff, permanent representatives and Roma and pro-Roma civil society organisations. “The ceremony will mark the 81^st anniversary of the tragic night of 2-3 August 1944, when more than 3,000 Roma men, women and children were murdered in the gas chambers of the “Zigeunerlager” at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This massacre was part of a wider Nazi campaign that claimed the lives of an estimated 500,000 Roma across Europe – a history too often overlooked and referred to as the “Forgotten Holocaust”. The Council of Europe “remains committed to ensuring that these atrocities are not forgotten and to fighting antigypsyism and discrimination”. The event comes in the year marking the tenth anniversary of the European Parliament’s recognition of 2 August as European Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, “underscoring the continued importance of remembrance and education.”. As in previous years, the ceremony will include a moment of reflection, symbolised by the laying of 100 white roses in memory of the victims.