European Parliament recognizes 2 August as Roma Genocide Remembrance Day

Rudolf Sarközi, Karl Stojka and Mongo Stojka unveiled the first plaque at Mauthausen specifically commemorating victims of the genocide of Roma and Sinti. Survivor initiative helped make the...

The law dated 2 August created the Foundation Remembrance, Responsibility and Future framework, funded by the German state and companies. It supported compensation for former Nazi forced labourers,...

A permanent exhibition opened in Block 13 at Auschwitz I, developed with the Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma and partner institutions. It placed the persecution of Sinti and...

Dutch Sinto and Holocaust survivor Zoni Weisz addressed the German Bundestag at its annual remembrance ceremony, the first time a representative of Sinti and Roma had spoken there for the occasion....

The federal government inaugurated the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma of Europe Murdered under the National Socialist Regime in Berlin. The site followed more than two decades of campaigning by the...

Sinto survivor Zoni Weisz spoke at the United Nations Holocaust remembrance ceremony. His testimony brought the experience of the genocide of Sinti and Roma to an international commemorative audience....

At Montreuil-Bellay, President François Hollande acknowledged France’s responsibility for the internment of people classified as nomads during and after the war. The category included Roma, Sinti...

The Museum of Romani Culture opened the completed permanent exhibition at the Hodonín memorial. The exhibition examined the site’s intersecting histories between 1940 and 1950, bringing the memorial...

The Wall of Pain memorial complex opened at the Roma cemetery in Uštica. Its dark slabs carry names of Roma murdered at Jasenovac. Naming victims counters the reduction of families and communities...

The Museum of Romani Culture opened a memorial at Lety, the site of a wartime camp for Roma and Sinti. The opening followed a long campaign by Roma activists and allies to remove a pig farm built over...