Verfolgung und Vernichtung

The genocide of the European Sinti and Roma during the Nazi era represented the criminal culmination of centuries of marginalization and persecution of this widely discriminated-against and criminalized minority. The historical and scholarly examination of this racially and sociopolitically motivated mass murder has long been overshadowed by research on the Holocaust. Even today, there remains a particular lack of local studies on the persecution and murder of the Sinti and Roma. Katharina Wojatzek and Rolf Fischer have researched the anti-Gypsy persecution and deportation of the Sinti and Roma from Dortmund, identified the victims by name, and documented their ordeals.