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In 2008, two children of this ethnicity drowned off a beach in Naples, supposedly while Italians watched. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this ethnic group, which has experienced historical discrimination in Europe. Thousands of people from this ethnic group were killed during the Holocaust in a genocide known as the Porajmos (“po-rye-MOHSS”).
ANSWER: Romani [prompt on Gypsy by asking “that term is considered a slur, what is the group’s endonym?”]
[10h] In this country, the Roma were declared a “socially degraded stratum,” resulting in the forced sterilization of many Roma women. Many Roma in this country were housed in under-maintained Panelák housing estates.
ANSWER: Czechoslovakia [or Československo]
[10e] The Catholic Church’s historical complicity in the oppression of the Romani was acknowledged in a 2000 apology by this Polish pope.
ANSWER: John Paul II [or Ioannes Paulus II or Jan Paweł II or Karol Józef Wojtyła, prompt on John Paul; reject “John” or “Paul”]
<GT, European History>

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RITPenn State1001020
PittMaryland100010