PENDARIPEN (“history”, in Romani) is a multidisciplinary research team, funded by the National Spanish Research Program (HAR2015-64744-P), and defined by its strong commitment to the emancipating power of History, understood both as a scientific knowledge and as a social lore. It is an endeavour shared by Historians, Anthropologists, Linguists, and Media and Cultural Studies experts, even though its core is mainly historiographical: we do believe that a plural and unbiased History will provide us with the critical insight and the adequate narrative to tackle this challenge successfully.

We are an international group of historians, social scientists, and scholars of language and culture, working with representatives of Romani communities to explore how the genocidal policies pursued in Europe between the mid-1930s and 1945 have shaped the social, political, and cultural history of Roma since 1945.

The genocide carried out against the Roma and Sinti communities of Europe by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Second World War - the persecution and murder of as many as 500,000 people - has been referred to as 'the forgotten Holocaust' by Professor Eve Rosenhaft.

“…don’t forget the photos, it’s very important” The National Socialist Persecution of Central German Sinti and Roma is a travelling exhibition which describes the experiences of German Sinti and Roma (“Gypsies”) during the Nazi regime through the lives of nine families, drawing on a unique set of photographs.