Federal Court revises its discriminatory compensation precedent

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...

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 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...

Chancellor Helmut Schmidt recognized Nazi crimes against Sinti and Roma as genocide on racial grounds during a meeting with representatives of the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma. The...

The Society for the Establishment of the Museum of Romani Culture was registered in Brno. Founders included Karel Holomek, Bartoloměj Daniel, Eva Davidová and Jana Holomková. The museum developed...