Mass arrests and deportations of Roma to Jasenovac begin

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...

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...

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...

Himmler authorized the deportation of Roma and Sinti from the Greater German Reich to Auschwitz. Police began sending people in February 1943 to the camp section known in German records by a racist...

The first transport of Roma and Sinti from Germany arrived at Auschwitz, beginning mass deportations under Himmler’s December 1942 order. The camp incarcerated families in a designated section,...

Roma prisoners from the Lety camp were deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau. The transfer followed a system of registration, forced labor, confinement, and lethal conditions in the Czech Protectorate;...

SS authorities murdered 1,035 Roma from the Auschwitz family camp, including Roma from Białystok and Austria. The killings were justified as a measure to prevent typhus, converting a crisis created by...