Roma and Sinti would usually be incarcerated in special sub-camps until they died and so would not normally receive a repeat stripe. Later in the war (late 1944), to save cloth Jewish …

In concentration camps such as Auschwitz, Roma and Sinti men wore brown or black triangular badges, the symbol for "asocial," with a letter "Z", meaning Zigeuner, the German word for …

Nazi racial ideology primarily vilified Jews, but also propagated hatred for Roma (Gypsies) and Black people. The Nazis viewed Jews as racial enemies and subjected them to arbitrary …

Roma and Sinti men, women and children were targeted for persecution and imprisonment, with a specific focus on clearing Berlin before the city hosted the Olympic Games in 1936. As World …

The Nazi Germans regarded Sinti and Roma (Zigeuner, as they were referred to in official German documents of the period) as enemies of the Third Reich, and therefore sentenced …

Many Roma in the east--Russia, Poland, and the Balkans--were shot by the Einsatzgruppen. In total, hundreds of thousands of Sinti and Roma were killed during the Holocaust.

It is estimated that more than 500,000 Roma and Sinti people were murdered during the Sec-ond World War, though the true number may be as many as one million. According to research by …

Translated literally as the "black patch," this was the triangular symbol sewn onto the clothing of Romani prisoners in the concentration camps of World War II.

Mar 9, 2015 · Roma communities within Nazi Germany (and after the start of World War Two in September 1939 throughout Europe) had much to fear from the Nazi regime. According to the …

Nazi concentration camp badges were colored pieces of fabric used by the Nazis to identify concentration camp prisoners during World War II. Prisoners had to sew these badges onto …