Project Edition on the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe

The nine‑year project (2026–2034) is being funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG). Its aim is to collate sources concerning the Nazi persecution and murder of Sinti and Roma across Europe and to make these materials accessible to scholars and the wider public. For the first time, all documents relevant to the various criminal components of the genocide— drawn from the administrative and repressive apparatus—will be published. These documents are systematically contextualised by complementary sources that present the victims’ perspective.

The aim of the digital edition is to chart the full continuum of persecution—from racist stigmatisation to the murders carried out in extermination camps. Geographically, the edition encompasses every country in which Sinti and Roma were persecuted under German hegemony or by states allied with Germany, and it also incorporates neutral states as well as the Western opponents of the Third Reich. The project is being implemented in collaboration with the Digital Research Infrastructures Unit at the Freie Universität Berlin and draws principally on the digital Encyclopaedia of the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe, a resource that has been under development at the Research Centre on Antigypsyism since July 2020.

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The project is scientifically directed by Dr Karola Fings. Together with Prof. Dr. Tanja Penter, Dr Frank Reuter, Prof. Dr. Katja Patzel‑Mattern and Dr Brigitte Grote (Freie Universität Berlin), she chairs the long‑term programme, which is underpinned by a network of more than 100 experts from 26 countries. The development of the digital edition is further supported by an international scholarly advisory board.