English: 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.
Welsh: Y digwyddiad Holocost Sipsiwn a Theithwyr - dechreuodd y grŵp trawsbleidiol ar Sipsiwn a Theithwyr drefnu digwyddiad blynyddol dair blynedd yn ôl i nodi Diwrnod Cofio'r Holocost oherwydd diffyg gwybodaeth am ddioddefaint y Sipsiwn yn yr Holocost. Er bod y digwyddiad yfory wedi'i drefnu gan Sipsiwn a Theithwyr, byddwn hefyd yn cofio'r bobl Iddewig, y bobl anabl, y bobl hoyw a ddioddefodd; byddwn yn cofio pawb. Targedwyd y Roma gan y Natsïaid ar draws Ewrop yn yr un modd ag y targedwyd y boblogaeth Iddewig, a'r nod oedd dinistrio'r boblogaeth gyfan. Roedd rhaglenni systematig ar gyfer symud y Roma i wersylloedd neu ardaloedd ar wahân yn bodoli ym mhob gwlad o dan y Natsïaid a llofruddiwyd cannoedd o filoedd o Roma Ewropeaidd. Amcangyfrifir, ar ddechrau'r ail ryfel byd, fod tua 1 filiwn Roma yn Ewrop. Erbyn diwedd y rhyfel, nid oedd ond tua 20 i 30 y cant o hynny. Ar ôl yr hil-laddiad, ni chafodd goroeswyr Roma o'r gwersylloedd eu cydnabod ar unwaith; ni chawsant eu digolledu ac ni ofynnwyd iddynt dystio yn nhreialon Nuremberg. Cymerodd fwy na 30 mlynedd i Lywodraeth Gorllewin yr Almaen gyfaddef fod y Natsïaid wedi targedu'r boblogaeth Roma. Dioddefodd llawer o bobl a oroesodd yr Holocost greithiau erchyll - creithiau nad ydynt wedi gwella i lawer o bobl. Byddwn yn cofio pob un ohonynt. Y llynedd, defnyddiodd y digwyddiad gelf weledol i'n helpu i gofio, gyda choeden a'r cerflun llyfr i gynrychioli cryfder goroeswyr ac ewyllys y bobl i ddal ati. Eleni, y gwaith celf ar gyfer y digwyddiad yw'r 'Wal o Eiriau'. Pobl ifanc a ddewisodd y geiriau pŵer a ddangosir yno, a gobeithiaf y byddwch yn ei gweld yfory ar risiau'r Senedd am 1 o'r gloch.