05 | Statement by Romani Rose, chairman of the Central Committee of German Sinti and Roma at an event at the Munich Volkstheater on 19 February 2017.

03.3 | The camp statistics of Buchenwald concentration camp record the presence of 157 ‘gypsies’ from Hungary on 15 December 1944.

LATh – HStA Weimar, NS 4 Bu 143, Bl. 372v

04.4 | Reinhard Florian in his memoirs published in 2012 entitled ‘Ich wollte nach Hause, nach Ostpreussen!’ [‘I wanted to go home, to East Prussia!’]

04.3 | Reinhard Florian, 89, on the day of the inauguration. As a Sinto with family roots in East Prussia, Reinhard Florian was one of the survivors who, for many years, had campaigned for the memorial. He died on 17 March 2014.

Documentation Centre Archives, photographer: Jens Jeske

04.2 | Inauguration of the memorial on 24 October 2012

Documentation Centre Archives, photographer: Jens Jeske

04.1 | Inauguration of the memorial on 24 October 2012

Documentation Centre Archives, photographer: Jens Jeske

03.2 | Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel thanking Zoni Weisz for his speech before the German Bundestag [federal parliament] (left: Norbert Lammert, President of the German Bundestag; centre: Andreas Vosskuhle, President of the Federal Constitutional Court).

Digital Image Service/German Bundestag Photographic Archives

03.1 | On 27 January 2011, Zoni Weisz of the Netherlands was the first Sinti and Roma survivor to address the German Bundestag [federal parliament] on the official Holocaust Remembrance Day to the memory of the victims of Nazi Germany. His parents and three siblings were killed by the Nazis. He himself avoided deportation to Auschwitz-Birkenau in May 1944 when a Dutch police officer helped him to escape; he was seven years old at the time. He remained in hiding until the end of the war and survived.

Digital Image Service/German Bundestag Photographic Archives

02 | Protest staged by the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma in front of the Parliament in Berlin in favour of a national memorial in remembrance of the Sinti and Roma murdered under the Nazis (November 2003). Numerous concentration camp survivors took part in the demonstration.

Documentation Centre Archives

01 | Protest staged in front of the Parliament building by the Central Council of German Sinti and Roma at the handover of its petition of signatures for the memorial, May 2001

Documentation Centre Archives