Where:
Virtual Exhibit
Date:
August 2020

This exhibition examines the Nazi genocide against the Roma and Sinti by uncovering the stories of some of those affected by the genocide. It explores the struggle that Roma have had in gaining recognition and compensation for the oppression they experienced as a result of this little-known aspect of Nazi persecution. 

The exhibition is organized by the Wiener Holocaust Library with support from The Holocaust and the United Nations Outreach Programme.

Credits

Copyright: Wiener Holocaust Library Collections, Liverpool University Library, Landesarchiv Berlin, Bundesarchiv, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

 

Most of the images used in this exhibit are perpetrator photographs taken by Nazi photographers and officials. Photography has played a major role in contributing to the construction of negative imagery of the Roma and Sinti, used to identify and track communities and enhance stereotypes.

These photographs perpetuate a prejudicial, othering gaze on their subjects, and do not reflect Roma and Sinti agency. The photographs have been contextualised to the best of our knowledge.