Transport of 245 Sinti and Roma leaves Westerbork for Auschwitz

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...

A transport carrying 351 Roma and Sinti arrested in northern France arrived at Auschwitz. The region was under German military administration linked to Belgium, and the deportation route reflected...

German authorities deported 352 Roma arrested in Belgium from the Dossin barracks in Mechelen to Auschwitz-Birkenau on Transport Z, alongside the 23rd Jewish transport. Only 33 Roma from the...

Prisoners in the Auschwitz family camp resisted an SS attempt to liquidate the camp. Armed with improvised tools and refusing orders, they forced the SS to postpone the operation; later selections and...

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...

Sinto Fioravante Lucchesi joined the Italian Resistenza. Roma and Sinti joined local resistance in different ways, despite the risks posed by racial persecution and fascist surveillance. His dated...

Twenty-two Lithuanian Romnja, most of them toddlers and children, were registered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau Roma family camp. These are the last entries in the surviving register for Roma prisoners in...

The SS liquidated the remaining Roma and Sinti family camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau and murdered approximately 4,200–4,300 people, including children and older adults. The murder followed the...

King Michael’s coup removed Ion Antonescu from power, ending the Romanian regime’s persecution of Roma. More than 25,000 Roma had been deported to Transnistria, where many died from hunger, disease,...

Sinto survivor Vinzenz Rose escaped from the Neckarelz satellite camp of Natzweiler-Struthof with help from his brother Oskar. The escape was a deliberate act of survival from the forced-labour camp...