Foundation law creates a framework for forced-labour compensation

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...

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...

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...

The European Parliament called for 2 August to be recognized as a European Roma Genocide Memorial Day and condemned anti-Roma racism. The resolution made remembrance a European political commitment...

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....