Project and online portal Encyclopaedia of the Nazi genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe
This international project is the first to examine the European dimension of the National Socialist genocide of Sinti and Roma in Europe. The widely scattered and often inaccessible historical knowledge on the genocide will be brought together in a large-scale encyclopaedia and made available for research and the general public.
The articles, written by more than 100 academics from Germany and abroad, are presented online in German and English. The encyclopaedia is arranged alphabetically and comprises around 1,000 lemmas. The Federal Foreign Office is funding the five-year research project with around 1.6 million euros.
The Federal Agency for Civic Education, FUB-IT at FU Berlin (Dept. E-Learning, E-Research, Team Research Software – formerly CeDiS), the Documentation and Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma, the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, the Fritz Bauer Institute and the Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe are cooperating on the encyclopaedia. An academic advisory council accompanies the development of the encyclopaedia.
Project team
Isaac Schmidt
Academic advisory council
- PD Dr. Susanne Heim, Freie Universität Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Tanja Penter, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
- Prof. Dr. Dieter Pohl, Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
- Prof. Dr. Sybille Steinbacher, Goethe-Universität und Fritz Bauer Institut, Frankfurt am Main
- Prof. Dr. Nikolaus Wachsmann, Birkbeck College an der Universität London
- Prof. Dr. Jens-Christian Wagner, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena und Stiftung Gedenkstätten Buchenwald und Mittelbau-Dora, Weimar
- PD Dr. Jane Weiß, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Prof. Dr. Michael Wildt, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
