EVENT INFORMATION

16
May
1944

Dutch police conduct a nationwide roundup of Sinti, Roma, and Travellers

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๐Ÿ“… 16 May 1944 ๐Ÿ“

A coordinated roundup took place in at least 19 Dutch municipalities, on caravan sites and elsewhere in towns and villages. Police arrested 578 Sinti, Roma, and Travellers. Of these, 245 were deported to Auschwitz three days later. Dutch records often grouped people under the imposed category โ€œreizigersโ€; the event records those targeted and the role of Dutch police rather than treating the round-up as an exclusively German action.

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People in this event

Sinti

Roma

and Traveller families in the Netherlands

Dutch police

Organizations in this Event

Dutch police

Westerbork transit camp