HMDT Blog: Settela's story
During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.
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HMDT Blog: The Roma community's long battle for public recognition
During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.
HMDT Blog: Roma survivors from former Yugoslavia
During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.
HMDT Blog: Persecution of Roma varied across east and south-east Europe
During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.
HMDT Blog: Auschwitz-Birkenau's Roma survivors
During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.
HMDT Blog: Auschwitz-Birkenau's Gypsy Family Camp
During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.
HMDT Blog: The life of Sinto boxer Johann 'Rukeli' Trollmann
During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.
HMDT Blog: Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month: an introduction
During this year’s Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month, historian Rainer Schulze reminds us of the systematic persecution the Roma and Sinti suffered during the period of Nazi rule in Germany and in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Centenary of the Ottoman campaign to destroy its Armenian population
Today, 24 April 2015, marks the centenary of the deportation of Armenian intellectuals from Constantinople (Istanbul), recognised as the start of the Ottoman Empire’s campaign to destroy its Armenian population.
Liberating Belsen: ‘I know what Nazism did: I was there’
This blog has been written by John Wood, the son of a soldier who was among the troops who entered Bergen-Belsen on 15 April 1945, to mark the 70th anniversary of the camp's liberation.