Society establishing the Museum of Romani Culture is registered

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...

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...

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...