Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues Andrzej Mirga, ODIHR’s Senior Adviser on Roma and Sinti Issues, speaks at a UN event to commemorate the 65th Anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, 27 January in New York. (UN Photo/Mark Garten) and information were added to the website, and a French-language section is being developed. The website will be launched officially in 2011. A draft version of the website, designed to provide schools, universities, civil society groups, relevant state authorities and the general public with easier access to information about the Roma and Sinti wartime experience, can be accessed at www.romagenocide.org. A commemorative event was co-organized by ODIHR, the Polish Government Plenipotentiary for Equal Treatment and regional authorities on 2 August in Oswiecim, where some 80 participants, including representatives of a European Roma youth network took part in commemorating the victims of the “Zigeunerlager”, or “Gypsy Camp”, at the former Nazi concentration camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. The event aimed to raise awareness among and teach young Roma about the origins of the Roma genocide and discuss the manifestations of racism and intolerance experienced by Roma today across Europe. Remembrance of the genocide against Roma and Sinti was highlighted at an event at the United Nations General Assembly earlier in the year, on 27 January, on the occasion of the International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust. Andrzej Mirga, Senior Advisor at the ODIHR Contact Point for Roma and Sinti Issues participated in the event, delivering an address entitled “The Legacy of the Survivors: Remembering the Nazi Persecution of Roma and Sinti – A Key to Fighting Modern-Day Racism”. The address was incorporated into a collection of discussion papers entitled “The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme”. Roma and Sinti Migration ODIHR has been following closely issues and events related to the migration of Roma and Sinti, and particularly the return — both voluntary and forced — of migrants to countries of origin. The return of Roma and Sinti migrants to Romania from France in summer 2010, coupled with comments by public officials there, raised concerns that such actions could encourage anti-Roma public discourse and prejudice and, ultimately, fuel intolerance, discrimination and acts of violence against these communities. A statement by ODIHR in August to this effect was followed by another at the High Level Conference on Roma, on 20 October in Strasbourg, reiterating these concerns. The Office also financed the production and publication in 2010 of a study conducted locally on the situation of Roma migrants in Spain, assessing the government policies and efforts ODIHR Annual Report 2010 57