The Auschwitz Museum records that two Polish Roma were among nine prisoners sent to the camp by German criminal police in Katowice. This early entry predates the mass deportation of Roma to Auschwitz in 1943; it shows that persecution and imprisonment began through local police actions before the later family deportations.
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What does the Auschwitz Museum record about 9 July 1941?
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This was an early documented imprisonment, before mass deportations began in 1943.
The Roma prisoners recorded at Auschwitz on 9 July 1941 were part of the mass deportations that began in 1943.
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This was an earlier, small-scale imprisonment before the later mass transports.