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).
