Hundreds of Gypsy leaders gathered at the site of the former Auschwitz death camp to commemorate the killings of the more than 20,000 members of their community at the camp. At the ceremony, Roman Kwiatowski, a Gypsy leader in Poland, appealed for an end to violence against his people in the war-torn province of Kosovo. Historians estimate that 500,000 Gypsies died during World War II.
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