Sinti and Roma people at Auschwitz were destined for sector BIIe of Birkenau, called the Zigeunerlager (the Gypsy camp). Here Michele Andreola, guide-educator at the Auschwitz Museum, tells the story of that area of Birkenau, until its liquidation on 2 August 1944. Roma and Sinti people in Europe faced a history of persecution, deportation and…

In international institutions, the term used to refer to the extermination of Roma and Sinti people is ‘Porrajmos’ or ‘Porajmos’ – a word that in Romanes means ‘devouring’ and refers to the desecration of life. The term was proposed by Ian Hancock, a Roma professor at the University of Austin, Texas, to refer to the…

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