The exhibition tells of the genocide of Roma people in World War II through the authentic story of Miranda, a Slovak-born Roma girl who survived the Holocaust.
The focus of the exhibition is on the values, spirit and culture of the Roma people in the present and past, rather than on the horrors of the Holocaust, the opening ceremony was told.
The exhibition was opened by Finnish Roma writer Veijo Baltzar, who conceived the exhibition. He said that the reception of the exhibition in countries it had visited so far was excellent, "including Croatia, which understands the quality of the exhibition and recognises its value based on history."
Among those attending the opening ceremony was Veljko Kajtazi, the representative of the Roma community in the Croatian parliament, who said he was encouraged by the fact that for the first time a Roma person was staging an exhibition in Croatia.
Kajtazi said that almost 17,000 Roma had been killed in WWII in Croatia and that they had again reached that number only 70 years later, according to the 2011 population census.
This is the first international exhibition on the Holocaust to be conceived by Roma themselves and has been seen by a million people in Finland in the five years since its opening.
Last spring the exhibition went on an international tour, so far visiting Estonia, Latvia, Slovakia, Hungary and Croatia. It was staged in the National and University Library in Zagreb in June, and will be open in Varazdin until October 8.