Justice ministry directs Roma compensation claims to criminal police

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...

The Alliers camp closed, ending wartime internment of Travellers in France only after liberation. The long delay makes visible the continuity between wartime restrictions and postwar state practice....

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...

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...

The German Sinti and Roma civil-rights movement organised an international rally at Bergen-Belsen. Simone Veil, a survivor and President of the European Parliament, spoke. The gathering challenged...

Sinti activists and Holocaust survivors began a hunger strike at Dachau’s Church of Reconciliation. They demanded recognition of the genocide, an end to special police registration and release of Nazi...

A hardship fund offered one-off payments to previously uncompensated non-Jewish victims, particularly Sinti and Roma. Limited redress followed long exclusion; payments did not constitute comprehensive...