German and Serbian formations arrest civilians around Kragujevac, including Roma

The French President’s decree prohibited movement, for the duration of the war, by Travellers holding the state’s anthropometric booklet and subjected them to compulsory residence. The decree preceded...

A transport of Sinti and Roma left Hohenasperg for occupied Poland. This deportation was part of the Nazi police campaign that uprooted families from western Germany and sent them into forced-labor...

The Ustaša regime adopted laws on racial affiliation and “Aryan blood” that defined who would be categorized as Jewish or Roma and restricted citizenship to people classified as Aryan. These...

The German military commander in Serbia issued an order extending specific anti-Jewish rules to Roma. Archival captions identify the order and its date; later registration requirements and forced...

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...

During a German raid in Niš, a Romani man forced to relay police orders warned Roma in Romanes that they were about to be arrested. Some people were able to flee. The episode, recorded in the European...

An order to field and district commands directed that Jews and Roma be taken as hostages for reprisals. The policy made civilians targets for collective punishment and preceded large-scale...

Between 28 October and 3 November, Wehrmacht soldiers and Serbian police units arrested Roma in Belgrade and the surrounding area and imprisoned them at Topovske Šupe as hostages for reprisals. Around...

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...