Roma prisoners from Lety are deported to Auschwitz

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...

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,...

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...

Roma partisan Ján Lacko was released from the forced-labour camp at Dubnica nad Váhom and joined the resistance. His action places Roma political agency within the anti-fascist struggle in Slovakia....

Fourteen-year-old Sinto Johann Winterstein was shot at the so-called Death Wall after fleeing or being suspected of trying to escape. On the same day, eleven other Sinti and Roma were murdered...

On the morning of 3 July, German police and Polish constables rounded up Roma residents, took them to the cemetery, and shot them. The memorial-museum account records 93 victims, including men, women,...

The Lety camp was officially closed after the liquidation of the site was completed. The closure followed overcrowding, disease, deaths in custody, and deportations to Auschwitz. The camp was...