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German Chancellor1 Angela Merkel is to unveil a memorial in Berlin to the Roma (Gypsy) victims of the Nazi2 Holocaust3.
德国总理安吉拉·默克尔将为柏林一座纪念碑揭牌,该纪念碑是为纳粹大屠杀中罗马人(吉普赛人)受害者而建。
The memorial to Roma and Sinti victims of the Holocaust has been 20 years in the making The memorial - a circular pool of water with a small plinth in the middle - will be in the Tiergarten park, near the Reichstag, the German parliament building.
The unveiling comes after years of delays and disputes over the memorial's design and its cost.
Experts say between 220,000 and 500,000 Roma were killed during World War II.
"It's very important to me that we have a culture of remembrance," Mrs Merkel said in an interview on her YouTube channel.
"Every generation must confront its own history afresh. And for that we must have suitable places that people can go to in the future, when the witnesses from the time are no longer alive."
Mrs Merkel acknowledged that the building of the memorial had taken a long time and entailed4 "many discussions", and recalled that the memorial to murdered Jews of Europe had also taken more than 15 years to complete.
President Joachim Gauck and some 100 elderly survivors5 will join Mrs Merkel at the opening ceremony on Wednesday.
The memorial has been designed by the Israeli artist Dani Karavan. A fresh flower will be laid on the plinth(底座) at the centre of the memorial every day.
A chronology of the Nazi extermination9 campaign stands next to the memorial.
In 1982, Germany officially recognised the genocide of the Roma and Sinti - a related people who live mostly in German-speaking areas of Central Europe.
The leader of the Central Council of Sinti and Roma in Germany, Romani Rose, will also be at the ceremony.
He told Agence France-Presse: "Opening the memorial sends an important message to society that anti-Roma sentiment is as unacceptable as anti-Semitism."
In recent years, Germany has been moving to commemorate10 the persecution11 of the Roma during World War II.
However, Roma organisations and human rights groups say they are still discriminated12 against in many European countries.
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