The Gypsy and Traveller Holocaust event—the cross-party group on Gypsies and Travellers began organising an annual event three years ago to mark Holocaust Memorial Day because of the lack of knowledge of the suffering of the Gypsies in the Holocaust. Although the event tomorrow has been organised by Gypsies and Travellers, we will also be remembering the Jewish people, disabled people, the gay people who suffered; we will be remembering everybody.

Roma were targeted by the Nazis across Europe in the same way the Jewish population was, and the aim was to destroy the population entirely. Systematic programmes for moving the Roma into camps or segregated areas existed in every country under Nazi occupation and hundreds of thousands of European Roma were murdered. It is estimated that, at the beginning of world war two, there were around 1 million Roma in Europe. By the end of the war, there were only about 20 to 30 per cent of that. After the genocide, Roma survivors of the camps were not immediately acknowledged; they weren't compensated or asked to testify at the Nuremberg trials. It took more than 30 years for the West German Government to admit that the Nazis had targeted the Roma population.

A great many people who survived the Holocaust were left with terrible scars—scars that for many people have never healed. We will remember all of them too. Last year, the event used visual art to help us remember, with a tree and the book sculpture to represent the resilience of survivors and the will of the people to go on. This year, the artwork for the event is the 'Wall of Words'. Young people chose the words of power displayed there, which I hope you will see tomorrow on the steps of the Senedd at 1 o'clock.