Wreaths were laid at a monument to WW 2 victims in memory of Roma killed by the Nazis in the central Serbia city of Kragujevac.

The ceremony was held at a memorial park just outside the city which was raised at the site of the execution of hundreds of local people, including school children in 1941 in retaliation for Nazi troops killed in combat with partisan forces. Roma boys who earned a living shining shoes were among the dead.

Roma Holocaust Memorial Day is marked on August 2 in memory of the Roma who were executed by the Nazis in World War 2. The date is the anniversary of the killing of 2,897 Roma men, women and children in the Zigeunerfamilienlager camp at the Auschwitz death camp complex.