Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun plural The members of a subgroup of the Romani people, concentrated mostly in Central Europe.
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- noun Plural form of
Sinto andSinta . ARomani people found in Germany and surrounding areas.
Etymologies
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Examples
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He recounts the one written in Sinti and Roma, then the one in Russian, noting:
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This word gypsy (Zigeuner in German, which is why they were identified by the letter "Z") was a pejorative word for a people that in central Europe were known as Sinti and in South East Europe known as Roma.
Woolly Days 2008
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In addition to the Holocaust's Jewish victims, up to 220,000 Sinti and Roma were similarly killed during World War II, as were Polish intellectuals and Communist officials, among other targeted groups.
Menachem Rosensaft: Criminalizing Mass Murder: 65 Years After The UN's First Condemnation Of Genocide Menachem Rosensaft 2011
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As we mark the 65th anniversary of the first formal recognition of genocide as a crime under international law, we should reflect on the progress we have made since the time when heads of governments and their acolytes believed that they could murder Jews, Roma and Sinti, Armenians, or members of other national, religious or ethnic groups with impunity.
Menachem Rosensaft: Criminalizing Mass Murder: 65 Years After The UN's First Condemnation Of Genocide Menachem Rosensaft 2011
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As we mark the 65th anniversary of the first formal recognition of genocide as a crime under international law, we should reflect on the progress we have made since the time when heads of governments and their acolytes believed that they could murder Jews, Roma and Sinti, Armenians, or members of other national, religious or ethnic groups with impunity.
Menachem Rosensaft: Criminalizing Mass Murder: 65 Years After The UN's First Condemnation Of Genocide Menachem Rosensaft 2011
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In addition to the Holocaust's Jewish victims, up to 220,000 Sinti and Roma were similarly killed during World War II, as were Polish intellectuals and Communist officials, among other targeted groups.
Menachem Rosensaft: Criminalizing Mass Murder: 65 Years After The UN's First Condemnation Of Genocide Menachem Rosensaft 2011
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Any Anti Nazi film is a good thing but when is one going to be made high-lighting the plight of the million Roma and Sinti who were murdered and tortured by the Nazis.
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At the Buchenwald reunion a number of other prisoners, some Sinti and some not, spoke of similar nightmares.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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A scholar and activist, the younger Strauss runs the Verband Deutscher Sinti und Roma Baden-Württemberg, an organization dedicated to preserving the culture and history of the Sinti and Roma, people commonly, and pejoratively, known as Gypsies.
The Lampshade Mark Jacobson 2010
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Klaus Wowereit, Berlin's mayor, called Topography of Terror "an active place of thought and remembrance" that will complement Berlin's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, the nearby Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism and the coming memorial to the Sinti and Roma, or Gypsy, victims.
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