German and Serbian police begin mass arrests of Roma in Belgrade

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...

From 18 to 21 October, German forces and Serbian collaborating formations arrested about 2,700 civilians in and around Kragujevac after partisan attacks on Wehrmacht units. Most victims were Serbs,...

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...

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...

German occupation forces shot 176 Roma in Aleksandrovka, Smolensk region. Many of the victims had worked on a collective farm. A locally erected monument and later Roma-focused memorial work...

The Ustaša authorities began mass arrests and deportations of Roma across the Independent State of Croatia to Jasenovac and Stara Gradiška. The Croatian state’s camp system confiscated belongings,...

Romanian authorities began deporting Roma categorized by police as “nomadic” to Romanian-administered Transnistria, followed by deportations of Roma categorized as “settled.” More than 25,000 Roma...