80 years after the genocide: demand for justice for Sinti and Roma

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On the European day of commemoration of the genocide to the Sinti and Roma, the German Institute for Human Rights explains the ongoing effect of genocide and the continuing antig. It is recommended to implement the extensive recommendations of the independent Commission of Antigiganism. The victims and their descendants are still denied adequate reparation. Information and reports on this society as a whole.
On the European day of commemoration of the genocide to the Sinti and Roma, the German Institute for Human Rights explains the ongoing effect of genocide and the continuing antig. It is recommended to implement the extensive recommendations of the independent Commission of Antigiganism. The victims and their descendants are still denied adequate reparation. Information and reports on this society as a whole. (Symbolbild/MB)




Human Rights Institute recommends comprehensive compensation for the survivors of the genocide to the Sinti and Roma

Human Rights Institute recommends comprehensive compensation for the survivors of the genocide to the Sinti and Roma

The German Institute for Human Rights made an urgent recommendation on the occasion of the European day of commemoration of the genocide to the Sinti and Roma on August 2. The institute calls for the Federal Government and the Bundestag to implement all recommendations of the independent Commission of Antigiganism and to ensure comprehensive compensation for the survivors and their descendants.

The genocide to the Sinti and Roma marks the 80th time this year. In the night of August 2 to August 3, 1944, the last remaining Sinti and Roma were murdered by the SS in the gas chambers of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The victims were mainly women, children and the elderly. They were the last survivors of the approximately 23,000 members of the minority who have been deported to the camp since the beginning of 1943.

The genocide, called Romanes "Porajmos", continues to date. While the survivors were traumatized and politically, socially and economically marginalized due to the persecution, a recognition of the genocide by the former perpetrators was prevented for decades.

The recommendations of the independent Commission Antigiganism, which was established by the Bundestag in 2019, have so far only been partially implemented. A representative against anti-Ziganism and for the life of the Sinti and Roma in Germany was appointed and a Bund-State Commission was founded. However, there is still no comprehensive compensation for the survivors of the genocide and a systematic processing of injustice in the post -war period.

The German Institute for Human Rights sees the implementation of all the commission's recommendations an important contribution to protection against the growing antigianism and racism of the present. Especially in this year, on which the memory of genocide is in the foreground, it is crucial that the survivors and their descendants finally be given appropriate reparation for the wrongly suffered.

more information

  • European Holocaust Memorial Day for Sinti and Roma
  • Report of the Independent Commission of Antigziganism: Change of Perspective - Catching up Justice - Participation
  • Second annual report of the registration and information center of anti-Ziganism
  • in focus: anti -practice as a problem as a whole social problem

Source: Berlin