Genocide • 20260519
On May 19, 1944, at the Westerbork transit camp, a glimpse of Sinti girl Settela Steinbach wearing a headscarf appears between the sliding doors of a cattle car awaiting deportation to Auschwitz.
In May 1945, her father, Moeselman Steinbach, wrote to “Repatriation” in the Netherlands: “...I very politely request you to inform me whether my wife and 10 children have arrived, or only children (Gypsy children) from the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.” Full post at https://settela.com/2026/05/19/genocide-20260519/

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A Romani (Gypsy) girl in eastern Bulgaria baked bread on a fire.
(April 2004)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Roma, #Gypsies, #Zigeuner, #Brotbacken, #bread_baking, #Shumen, #Bulgaria

Turkish Gypsy girls (Roma) dance at a conference on Gypsies in Edirne (European Turkey).
(May 2005)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Tanz, #dance, #Gypsies, #Roma, #Zigeuner, #Edirne, #Thracia, #Türkei, #Turkey

Grave lamp with the Polish inscription: ‘It was God's will’ in a Duisburg cemetery (grave of Gypsies who originally immigrated from Poland).
(October 2011)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Lampen, #lamps, #Grableuchten, #Friedhöfe, #cemeteries, #Gräber, #graves, #Duisburg, #Kelderara, #Gypsies, #Zigeuner

Gypsy (Roma) children near Veliki Preslav (Eastern Bulgaria).
(April 2004)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Gypsies, #Roma, #Zigeuner, #Kinder, #children, #Pferde, #horses, #Veliki_Preslav, #Bulgarien, #Bulgaria

At the medieval Christmas market in Siegburg, there was also a fortune teller's cart. She supposedly tells fortunes according to Sinti tradition (German Gypsies).
(December 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Mittelalterlicher_Markt, #medieval_market, #Wahrsagerin, #fortune_teller, #Sinti, #Zigeuner, #Siegburg

Once again, Sinti Gypsies and their friends have organized a Cologne Gypsy Night (concert).
Presumably concerned that “politically correct” ideologues (non-Gypsies!) might take aggressive action against the term “Zigeuner" (Gypsies) and tear down the posters, they added a statement to the poster defending the term. - This is Germany ...
(December 2025)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Zigeuner, #Gypsies, #Sinti, #music, #political_correctness", #ideology

Grave decorations set up for the funeral of a Gypsy (Lovari) in a Cologne cemetery. These represent the hobbies of the deceased: playing cards, horse racing, and billiards.
(November 2016)
(Foto: © Rüdiger Benninghaus)
#Begräbnis, #funeral, #Grabschmuck, #grave_decorations, #Zigeuner, #Gypsies, #Lovara, #Rom, #Friedhof, #cemetery, #Köln