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04/08/2021 April 8, 2021. On International Romani Day, some 76 years after the Nazi genocide that aimed to wipe out Germany's Sinti and Roma communities, DW looks at progress for Europe's largest ...
Sinti and Roma in the courtyard of Hohenasperg prison, Germany, prior to deportation to a camp in Poland on May 22, 1940. Galerie Bilderwelt—Getty Images.
A new report about antiziganism in Germany has revealed alarming figures — and criticized the media for feeding cliches. But the community is also counting small successes.
The Roma and Sinti testimonies database currently includes 115 stories recounted by survivors, most of whom once lived in the former Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
Monday marks 75 years since the Nazi genocide against Sinti and Roma started. These communities struggled for decades for official recognition of that crime and still live with daily prejudice.
She survived the Holocaust. Her parents did not. They were among the 250,000 to 500,000 Roma and Sinti people – between 25 and 50 percent of the minority’s entire population in Europe at the ...
The Sinti and Roma fought up to the 1980s without success for moral and financial compensation for the crimes committed against them by the Nazis. There are many hair-raising stories.
The 11,000 Roma and Sinti residents of the town of Eisenberg in the state of Thuringia can go to Renata Conkova for assistance. She heads the regional association of Sinti and Roma, RomnoKher.
Observances are being held at Auschwitz-Birkenau in memory of the Roma and Sinti victims of the camp, who, like the Jews, were condemned to destruction under Nazi Germany's murderous ideology.
Pope Francis has received and prayed with hundreds of Roma and Sinti people and told them that he suffers when he reads about abuse and prejudice against them.
BERLIN — Germany’s leading Roma and Sinti group recorded hundreds of incidents of discrimination and racism against the minority community in the past year, a report said Monday, warning that ...