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.

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.

Both Sinti and Roma are Gypsy peoples who live predominantly in eastern Europe. Historians estimate that up to 500,000 Sinti and Roma were killed in the Holocaust.

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 increasing ...

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 ...

Still, Sinti and Roma are treated as second class victims in the commemoration of the Nazi crimes. In spite of the fact that they are a recognized minority in Germany, they are confronted with ...

Roughly 21,000 of the 23,000 Roma and Sinti held in Auschwitz perished during World War II. It is estimated at least 250,000 Roma were killed during the war. Some estimates are as great as 500,000.

The Berlin gathering came on European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma, when the last 4,300 Sinti and Roma in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp were murdered by the SS on August 2nd, 1944.

BERLIN — Zilli Schmidt, a survivor of the Auschwitz, Lety, and Ravensbrueck concentration camps who became a vocal advocate for the recognition of the Nazi genocide of Sinti and Roma, has died ...

Roma and Sinti are recognized minorities in Germany. Around 60,000 Sinti and 10,000 Roma live in Germany, according to Germany’s Federal Agency for Civil Education.