The genocide of the European Sinti and Roma during the Nazi era marked the criminal culmination of centuries of exclusion and persecution of this widely discriminated against and criminalised minority. The historical and academic examination of this racially and socio-politically motivated mass murder has long been overshadowed by research into the Holocaust. Even today, there remains a particular lack of local studies on the persecution and murder of the Sinti and Roma. Katharina Wojatzek and Rolf Fischer have researched the anti-Gypsy persecution and the deportation of the Sinti and Roma from Dortmund, identifying the victims by name and documenting their ordeals