Transport Z deported Roma and Sinti from northern France to Auschwitz

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...

On the morning of 3 July, German police and Polish constables rounded up Roma residents, took them to the cemetery, and shot them. The memorial-museum account records 93 victims, including men, women,...

The Lety camp was officially closed after the liquidation of the site was completed. The closure followed overcrowding, disease, deaths in custody, and deportations to Auschwitz. The camp was...

German authorities deported 352 Roma arrested in Belgium from the Dossin barracks in Mechelen to Auschwitz-Birkenau on Transport Z, alongside the 23rd Jewish transport. Only 33 Roma from the...

Prisoners 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...

A coordinated roundup took place in at least 19 Dutch municipalities, on caravan sites and elsewhere in towns and villages. Police arrested 578 Sinti, Roma, and Travellers. Of these, 245 were deported...

Three days after the nationwide roundup, 245 Sinti and Roma were deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only about 30 returned, according to the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and...

Sinto Fioravante Lucchesi joined the Italian Resistenza. Roma and Sinti joined local resistance in different ways, despite the risks posed by racial persecution and fascist surveillance. His dated...