Roma and Sinti prisoners resist an attempted liquidation at Auschwitz

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...

A 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...

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...

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...

Twenty-two Lithuanian Romnja, most of them toddlers and children, were registered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Roma family camp. These are the last entries in the surviving register for Roma prisoners in...

The SS liquidated the remaining Roma and Sinti family camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered approximately 4,200–4,300 people, including children and older adults. The murder followed the...