EVENT INFORMATION

1
June
1942

Romania begins deporting Roma to Transnistria

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📅 1 June 1942 📍 Romania

Romanian authorities began deporting Roma categorized by police as “nomadic” to Romanian-administered Transnistria, followed by deportations of Roma categorized as “settled.” More than 25,000 Roma were deported in 1942–44; thousands died from hunger, cold, disease, and abuse. The Romanian state and its gendarmerie were direct agents of persecution, in alliance with Nazi Germany but through their own policies and institutions.

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People in this event

Roma deportees

Ion Antonescu

Organizations in this Event

Romanian government

Romanian gendarmerie