Around 500-700 Romani people live in Norway.[1]

The Roma were not recognized as one of Norway’s five national minorities until the year 1999.[2]

The small Roma minority in Norway suffered greatly during the World War II. After being denied entry to Norway in 1934, Norwegian Romani families had lived in Belgium and France, under strict state surveillance. With the German occupation of these Belgium and France in the year 1940, the majority of this Norwegian Romani community later ended up in concentration camps in France, and were later sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only four of the 66 Norwegian Romas sent to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp had survived.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Roma in the EU and Norway: Challenges and Best Practices for Empowerment
  2. ↑ "Parallel worlds: The life of Romani people in Norway". 29 December 2014.
  3. ↑ "Norway – narrating essay - RomArchive".
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