According to Brooks, for many Roma the Holocaust - in which hundreds of thousands of Roma were exterminated - is a living memory, even if there are few survivors left.

And recent events such as France's expulsion of a Roma schoolgirl and her family earlier this month, Sweden's recent illegal attempts to include all Romani over the age of two in a national database and Italy's plan five years ago to conduct mass fingerprinting of all Roma children. says Brooks. mean that it's not hard to see why the baby ¡°Maria¡± was left with her Romani employers rather than the Greek state.

(In the article above, there are some errors in punctuations, would you correct them?)

According to Brooks, for many Roma, the Holocaust, in which hundreds of thousands of Roma were exterminated, is a living memory, even if there are few survivors left.

This would be far better if it were revised into TWO sentences instead of all jammed into one.
Recent events, such as France's expulsion of a Roma schoolgirl and her family earlier this month, Sweden's recent illegal attempts to include all Romani over the age of two in a national database, and Italy's plan five years ago to conduct mass fingerprinting of all Roma children -- all these, says Brooks, mean that it's not hard to see why the baby Maria was left with her Romani employers rather than the Greek state.

This is a pretty good explanation of how I used the em-dash above, except that I put the series first, and then the main clause after the em-dash.
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In the given excerpt, the mentioned punctuation errors are with the use of quotation marks. They should be corrected as follows:

According to Brooks, for many Roma, the Holocaust - in which hundreds of thousands of Roma were exterminated - is a living memory, even if there are few survivors left.

And recent events such as France's expulsion of a Roma schoolgirl and her family earlier this month, Sweden's recent illegal attempts to include all Romani over the age of two in a national database, and Italy's plan five years ago to conduct mass fingerprinting of all Roma children, say Brooks. This means that it's not hard to see why the baby "Maria" was left with her Romani employers rather than the Greek state.