The majority of primary school pupils in Germany don’t know what the terms Jew and Roma mean, according to a new study conducted by the International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television in Munich.
Monday marks 75 years since the Nazi genocide against Sinti and Roma started. These communities struggled for decades for official recognition of that crime and still live with daily prejudice.
An organization which supports the rights of Sinti and Roma in Frankfurt has accused city officials of “scandalous" behaviour for tampering with the passports of Roma migrants.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees said on Tuesday that Europe must work out a fairer way of sharing refugees, days after Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that the refugee crisis would likely prove a greater political challenge for Europe than Greece.
A new study has found that the Sinti and Roma people encounter more discrimination than any other group in Germany, with more than a fifth of Germans supporting their deportation.
The German Parliament will meet on Friday to discuss plans to restrict immigration from Balkan countries which would see Serbia, Macedonia and Bosnia-Herzegovina classed as “safe countries of origin”.
Amnesty International released on Tuesday a damning report on Europe's attitude towards its Roma community. The head of the charity's German branch, Selmin Caliskan, said she believed that governments allowed racism to happen.
Authorities in the central German city of Hannover reminded canteen staff this week not to use the term "Gypsy schnitzel" on their menus in support of Roma and Sinti groups who are pushing for the word to be banned on food labels.
Authorities have ordered a neo-Nazi party to take down campaign posters in central Germany for being anti-Romani. The placards lined a street leading up to a former concentration camp.
A Sinti and Roma group are calling for German food companies to change the name of popular <i>Zigeunersauce</i>, “gypsy sauce”. But manufacturers are not rushing to reprint labels.
Nazif Mujic picked up the Silver Bear for best actor at the Berlin Film Festival earlier this month for his performance in Bosnian director Danis Tanovic's "An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker," one of the highlights of the Berlinale.
Concern is rising and complaints multiplying about hundreds of Roma living in a dilapidated apartment block in Duisburg, rented out at seemingly high prices by a red light slumlord, it was reported on Thursday.
Chancellor Angela Merkel will inaugurate a memorial to Roma and Sinti people murdered the Nazis on Wednesday, as Europe's largest minority grapples with ongoing discrimination.
Thousands of people gathered in Rostock over the weekend to mark the 20th anniversary of what is viewed as the worst attack against foreigners the country has seen since the Second World War.
An Auschwitz victim’s widow has been denied a pension after authorities questioned medical reports from more than 40 years ago which said his ill-health was caused by the two years in Nazi camps.
Police investigating an arson attack on an apartment housing Roma and Sinti families in Leverkusen were continuing Tuesday morning to probe the possibility that neo-Nazis may have been behind the attack.
A Berlin charity has been accused of housing Roma families in filthy flats and making a hefty profit from over-charging them for the accommodation – tax free, while speaking about them with a shocking lack of respect.
A Roma man was for the guest of honour at official Holocaust Remembrance Day commemorations for the first time in Germany on Thursday and made a poignant call for better treatment of his people in Europe.
France's expulsions of Roma have caused international outrage, but what's life like in Germany for the people once known as Gypsies? Robert Rigney explored Berlin's Roma community for Exberliner magazine.
State interior ministers on Saturday said there would be no French-style mass deportations of Roma in Germany. But there was also criticism of the government's Roma policy.
Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle on Friday repudiated statements by French President Nicolas Sarkozy that Germany is planning deportations of Roma people similar to the controversial programme in France.
Germany said Thursday that it fully supported European Commission concerns about French treatment of Roma but said that the EU justice commissioner could have been "more measured" in her comments.
For two teenage Roma sisters, life has turned into a nightmare since they were expelled from Germany, the only home they had ever known, and forced to settle in Kosovo, a country they had never seen.
When a group of Roma and Sinti started camping out in Görlitzer Park in Kreuzberg at the end of May, media chaos broke out. Leftists took them in, then turned them over to a church; the church turned them out and the authorities dithered helplessly before finally putting them in temporary accommodation in Spandau.
