Visit
Your way to the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma at the heart of Heidelberg’s Old Town.
Temporary Exhibitions
Here you will find current and past temporary exhibitions at the Documentation and Cultural Center in Heidelberg.
Permanent Exhibition Heidelberg
Since March 1997, the Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma in Heidelberg has hosted the first permanent exhibition documenting the Nazi genocide of this minority.
Workshops and Guided Tours
A visit to the Documentation and Cultural Center offers the opportunity to encounter the history and the present of the Sinti and Roma and allows for an examination of the persecution of this minority during the Nazi era. We would like to engage in conversation with our visitors and thus have devised educational opportunities which encourage a critical historical awareness, an examination of past and present racism, as well as individual contemplation of identity, responsibility and scope of action.
Exhibitions
On March 16, 1997, the newly opened Documentation and Cultural Center of German Sinti and Roma presented an exhibition documenting the Nazi genocide of the minority for the first time to the public. At that time, the Nazi policy of extermination against the Sinti and Roma had largely been excluded from both the historical narrative as well as the memorial work. The newly founded Heidelberg Center set itself the task to bring about a change in thinking here. Since then, exhibitions have been an important means for the Center’s public relations work – both nationally and internationally.
Collection
In addition to the specialized public library, the Documentation and Cultural Center also has a collection of historical objects and documents on the topics of the history and culture of the Sinti and Roma, National Socialism and the Holocaust, Antigypsyism and civil rights work.