German police and Polish constables murder the Roma community of Szczurowa

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...

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...

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...