[1] Between ten and twenty families of settled Romani had lived in Szczurowa for generations, alongside ethnic Poles with whom they had friendly and neighborly relations.
On 3 July 1943[2] German police rounded up almost all the Romani inhabitants of the village and transported them to the local cemetery where they were shot.
The decision to omit reference to the Romani people on the memorial may also be a result of political narrative shaping by the Polish government of the time.
The Tarnów region was the site of other Nazi crimes against Romani in addition to that at Szczurowa.
[4] The Romani people, who lived in Europe from the 15th century, were among the groups singled out by the Nazi Germany regime for persecution and were often murdered along with the Jews.