France closes the last wartime internment camp for Travellers

After escaping from the Nazi camp system, Anton Reinhardt was captured by a Volkssturm unit and condemned by a summary tribunal. SS officer Karl Hauger murdered him on 31 March. Reinhardt had...

US forces reached Buchenwald while organised prisoners took control as SS authority collapsed. Sinti and Roma had been confined in the camp and its forced-labour network. Liberation ended imprisonment...

British troops liberated Bergen-Belsen, where surviving prisoners included Sinti and Roma. They encountered mass death, disease and extreme deprivation. Emergency treatment could not prevent many...

On the night of 24–25 April 1945, 43 German Sinti men, women, and children hiding in Hrastina near Zagreb were killed and burned in a barn. Sources disagree about the perpetrators: a Council of Europe...

The Soviet prosecution read German correspondence describing the forced sterilisation of a Roma woman in occupied Latvia. The transcript identifies her as Lucia Strasdinsch, with spelling variants...

Poland’s Supreme National Tribunal sentenced former Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss to death. The camp’s crimes included the mass murder of Sinti and Roma, alongside the much larger murder of Jews...

Tadeusz Joachimowski and museum staff recovered registers hidden in a bucket before the murder of the Roma family camp prisoners. Joachimowski, Ireneusz Pietrzyk and Henryk Porębski had preserved...

A justice-ministry circular required Roma compensation claims to undergo criminal-police scrutiny. Survivors seeking redress were again subjected to institutional suspicion. This administrative...

The Federal Court of Justice ruled that racial persecution of Roma and Sinti had not begun before Himmler’s December 1942 deportation order. It relied on racist stereotypes and helped exclude many...

The Federal Court of Justice revised its 1956 precedent, accepting that racial motives could contribute to persecution before 1943. The correction widened legal possibilities without making...