EVENT INFORMATION

16
Mei
1944

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

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📅 16 Mei 1944 📍

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 “reizigers”; 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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Personanan den e suseso aki

Sinti

Roma

and Traveller families in the Netherlands

Dutch police

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Dutch police

Westerbork transit camp