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Auschwitz-Birkenau
Auschwitz-Birkenau
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First transport from Terezรญn arrives at Auschwitz
๐ 26 October 1942The first transport of Jews from the Theresienstadt ghetto to Auschwitz arrived on this date. Deportations linked a ghetto used for propaganda and transit to the killing-center system.
Himmler orders deportation of Roma and Sinti to Auschwitz
๐ 16 December 1942Himmler authorized the deportation of Roma and Sinti from the Greater German Reich to Auschwitz. Police began sending people in February 1943 to the camp section known in German records by a racist...
First transport of Roma and Sinti from Germany arrives at Auschwitz
๐ 26 February 1943The first transport of Roma and Sinti from Germany arrived at Auschwitz, beginning mass deportations under Himmlerโs December 1942 order. The camp incarcerated families in a designated section,...
First Salonika transport arrives at Auschwitz
๐ 20 March 1943The first deportation transport from Salonika arrived at Auschwitz-Birkenau. This marked the start of a sequence that destroyed one of Europeโs largest Sephardic Jewish communities, whose...
Roma prisoners from Lety are deported to Auschwitz
๐ 4 May 1943Roma prisoners from the Lety camp were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The transfer followed a system of registration, forced labor, confinement, and lethal conditions in the Czech Protectorate;...
SS murders 1,035 Roma prisoners during an epidemic-prevention selection
๐ 25 May 1943SS authorities murdered 1,035 Roma from the Auschwitz family camp, including Roma from Biaลystok and Austria. The killings were justified as a measure to prevent typhus, converting a crisis created by...
Transport Z deported Roma and Sinti from northern France to Auschwitz
๐ 15 January 1944A transport carrying 351 Roma and Sinti arrested in northern France arrived at Auschwitz. The region was under German military administration linked to Belgium, and the deportation route reflected...
Roma and Sinti prisoners resist an attempted liquidation at Auschwitz
๐ 16 May 1944Prisoners in the Auschwitz family camp resisted an SS attempt to liquidate the camp. Armed with improvised tools and refusing orders, they forced the SS to postpone the operation; later selections and...
SS murders the remaining prisoners in the Roma and Sinti family camp
๐ 2 August 1944The SS liquidated the remaining Roma and Sinti family camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered approximately 4,200โ4,300 people, including children and older adults. The murder followed the...
Two hundred Sinti and Roma boys and young men are deported from Buchenwald
๐ 25 September 1944Two hundred male Sinti and Roma children and adolescents were transported from Buchenwald to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only two survivors of this transport are known. The deportation demonstrates how Nazi...