About the project romasintigenocide.eu

The website “romasintigenocide.eu” is a learning platform that provides fundamental knowledge about the genocide committed against European Sinti and Roma.  It is aimed at schoolchildren, teachers and anyone who would like to find out more about the history of the genocide of the Roma and Sinti.

The first version of the website was created between 2007 and 2011 on behalf of the Austrian Ministry of Education (BMBWF) as a shared project of the Associations _erinnern.at_ and Kanzlei - Internationaler Verein für Wissenschaft und Kultur. The texts’ author is Gerhard Baumgartner, former scientific director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance (DÖW). The international country pages and language versions were implemented in cooperation with numerous European experts and partner organisations. In 2023, the website was updated in terms of its content and technology, and the “Roma resistance” section was added.

The entire website’s development was accompanied by an international steering committee in which the commissioning and funding organisations were represented: the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA Committee on the Genocide of the Roma), the Fondation pour la Mémoire da la Shoah and the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF).

Its technical implementation was carried out by the website agency KOMBINAT, in cooperation with the graphic designer, Peter Egelseer. The website agency Earlybird was responsible for the website’s technical relaunch.

The OeAD – Austria’s Agency for Education and Internationalisation – has been managing the website since 2023. The former association _erinnern.at_ became part of the OeAD in 2022 as its Holocaust Education Programme.

We would like to express our thanks to the project’s partners and sponsors, all participating institutions and experts on an international level, as well as all those who contributed in editorial and technical terms to the website’s realisation.

International

  • Karen Polak, Anne Frank House, Amsterdam

  • Alenka Janko Spreizer, IHRA, Primorska

  • Claude Singer, Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris

  • Martina Maschke, BMBWF, Wien

  • Moritz Wien, BMBWF, Wien

Germany

  • Robert Sigel, Büro des Antisemitismusbeauftragten der Bayerischen Staatskanzlei, München

  • Oliver von Mengersen, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg

  • Sabine Schweizer, Weimar

  • Jan Kreutz, wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter im Dokumentations- und Kulturzentrum Deutscher Sinti und Roma, Heidelberg

  • Karola Fings, Universität Heidelberg, Heidelberg

Italy

  • Rosa Corbeletto, Torino

Croatia

  • Danijel Vojak, Zagreb

  • Loranda Miletić, Zagreb

Latvia

  • Anda Simina, Riga

Lithuania

  • Ieva Šadzevičienė, Vilnius

  • Gražina Sluško, Vilnius

Norway

  • Anton Weiss-Wendt, Olso

Austria

  • Gerhard Baumgartner, ehem. Wissenschaftlicher Leiter des DÖW, Dokumentationsarchiv des Österreichischen Widerstands

  • Irmgard Bibermann, Universität Innsbruck / ERINNERN:AT Tirol

  • Maria Ecker, freie Historikerin

  • Michaela Bobas-Pupic, Wien

  • Lajos Csépai, Wien

  • Barbara Tiefenbacher, Graz

  • Emmerich Charly Gärtner-Horvath, Obmann Verein Roma-Service, Oberwart

  • Werner Dreier, Bregenz

Poland

  • Slawomir Kapralski, Warsawa

Romania

  • Michelle Kelso, Bucuresti

  • Viorel Achim

Serbia

  • Milovan Pisarri, Belgrad

Switzerland

  • Monique Eckmann, Geneve

  • Thomas Huonker, Zürich

  • Sabina Brändli, Zürich

Slovakia

  • Zuza Kummanová, Bratislava

  • Arne Mann, Bratislava

  • Michal Vaněk, Bratislava

  • Kristína Dublanová, Bratislava

  • Martin Korčok, Bratislava

Czech Republic

  • Petr Lhotka, Brno

  • Michal Schuster, Brno

Hungary

  • János Bársony, Budapest

  • Csaba Dupcsik, Budapest

  • Agnes Daróczi, Budapest

  • Èva Kovács, Budapest

  • Attila Márfi, Pécs

Ukraine

  • Mihkayl Tyaglyy, Kiew