Vinzenz Rose escapes a Natzweiler satellite camp with help from his brother

Three days after the nationwide roundup, 245 Sinti and Roma were deported from Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only about 30 returned, according to the Netherlands Institute for War, Holocaust and...

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,...

Two hundred male Sinti and Roma children and adolescents were transported from Buchenwald to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Only two survivors of this transport are known. The deportation demonstrates how Nazi...

After a partisan attack in the Maleševo mountains, German combat group Bruns shot civilians in the region. Around 40 people were killed in Berovo, including at least four Roma. The reprisal was...

After Ustaša forces killed several dozen of his relatives, Bosnian Rom Nadir Dedić joined the partisan resistance. His decision records both the destruction of Roma families under the Ustaša regime...

The Slovak State’s Ministry of National Defence ordered the establishment of a detention camp for Roma at Dubnica nad Váhom. The order formalized confinement under the collaborationist state; the camp...

Mária Lacková, the mother of Roma partisan Ján Lacko, his wife Rozália, and their four daughters were taken to a forest near Puš mountain and shot by German and Slovak supporters of the Tiso regime....