SS murders the remaining prisoners in the Roma and Sinti family camp

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...

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...

King Michael’s coup removed Ion Antonescu from power, ending the Romanian regime’s persecution of Roma. More than 25,000 Roma had been deported to Transnistria, where many died from hunger, disease,...

Sinto survivor Vinzenz Rose escaped from the Neckarelz satellite camp of Natzweiler-Struthof with help from his brother Oskar. The escape was a deliberate act of survival from the forced-labour camp...

Two 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...

After a partisan attack in the Maleševo mountains, German combat group Bruns shot civilians in the region. Around 40 people were killed in Berovo, including at least four Roma. The reprisal was...

After Ustaša forces killed several dozen of his relatives, Bosnian Rom Nadir Dedić joined the partisan resistance. His decision records both the destruction of Roma families under the Ustaša regime...