Himmler orders deportation of Roma and Sinti to Auschwitz

The first of five transports carrying 5,007 Roma from Austria’s Burgenland region arrived at the segregated Roma camp inside the Łódź ghetto. The transports arrived between 5 and 9 November. German...

The Roma camp in the Łódź ghetto was liquidated during 5–12 January 1942. More than 600 Roma had already died from disease and deprivation in the ghetto; surviving prisoners were taken to Chełmno...

German occupation forces shot 176 Roma in Aleksandrovka, Smolensk region. Many of the victims had worked on a collective farm. A locally erected monument and later Roma-focused memorial work...

The Ustaša authorities began mass arrests and deportations of Roma across the Independent State of Croatia to Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška. The Croatian state’s camp system confiscated belongings,...

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...

The first transport of Roma and Sinti from Germany arrived at Auschwitz, beginning mass deportations under Himmler’s December 1942 order. The camp incarcerated families in a designated section,...

Roma 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 authorities murdered 1,035 Roma from the Auschwitz family camp, including Roma from Białystok and Austria. The killings were justified as a measure to prevent typhus, converting a crisis created by...

Roma partisan Ján Lacko was released from the forced-labour camp at Dubnica nad Váhom and joined the resistance. His action places Roma political agency within the anti-fascist struggle in Slovakia....

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...