Resources

Document Library

A guide to the institutions that digitise, preserve and present Roma culture and history — where to find authoritative material on every topic in this section.

Document Library
S3g3band GB — CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

This library maps the major archives of Roma heritage. Each entry below describes what the institution holds, so you can research music, art, language, history and the memory of the Roma Holocaust from one place. These are independent institutions; RomaniWorld summarises and credits them.

Gallery

26 openly-licensed images

Images via Wikimedia Commons — openly licensed (CC / public domain). Click any image to view full-size; source & licence shown below.

RomArchive

The Digital Archive of the Roma — 5,000+ objects across music, dance, film, literature and visual art, curated by Roma.

Europeana

Europe’s cultural-heritage platform, aggregating millions of digitised items from museums and libraries.

Council of Europe

Pedagogical factsheets on Roma history, culture, language and the Holocaust.

USHMM

The US Holocaust Memorial Museum’s research on the genocide of European Roma, 1939–1945.

Documentation Centre, Heidelberg

The Documentation & Cultural Centre of German Sinti and Roma — remembrance and research.

ERIAC

The European Roma Institute for Arts and Culture, supporting contemporary Roma arts.

Fortepan

An open archive of historical Hungarian photographs (CC-BY-SA).

Wikimedia Commons

Freely-licensed images of Romani people, history and culture.

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