Encyclopaedia: Genocide Sinti and Roma

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This Encyclopaedia is the first comprehensive overview of the existing knowledge on the persecution and murder of the Sinti and Roma under National Socialism and during the Second World War (1933–1945) in Europe. More than 100 authors from 26 countries (as of November 2025) are involved. The articles on the history and aftermath of the genocide, also known as the ‘Holocaust of the Sinti and Roma‘, are constantly being updated and will grow to around 1,000 contributions.

Ceija Stoijka (1933–2013)»I am afraid that Europe is forgetting its past and that Auschwitz is only sleeping.«Source

Timea Junghaus, Auschwitz schläft nur. Die Kunst der Ceija Stojka, in: Ceija Stojka (1933–2013). Sogar der Tod hat Angst vor Auschwitz, hg. von Lith Bahlmann/Matthias Reichelt, Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 2014, S. 249–261, hier S. 256.

You can search the content from A to Z, explore thematic focal points via the Rubrics or find places, people, keywords and authors via the Index. A Chronology contains the most important events connected with the genocide. In addition, Photographs and Maps illustrate the dimensions of the persecution and murder of the Sinti and Roma in Europe.

Further information on the project can be found in About Us. You can find out more about the concept of the Encyclopaedia in the Editorial.

Encyclopaedia of the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe

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