The Auschwitz Museum records that two Polish Roma were among nine prisoners sent to the camp by German criminal police in Katowice. This early entry predates the mass deportation of Roma to...
Fourteen-year-old Sinto Johann Winterstein was shot at the so-called Death Wall after fleeing or being suspected of trying to escape. On the same day, eleven other Sinti and Roma were murdered...
Soviet troops entered the Auschwitz camp complex and found about 7,000 surviving prisoners, many gravely ill. The SS had forced most prisoners on death marches westward; liberation exposed the scale...
