Slovak authorities order a detention camp for Roma at Dubnica

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...

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...

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....

Mass executions began at Kremnička after the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising and continued through 17 March 1945. German and Slovak units killed thousands there; the Sinti and Roma...

Members of Einsatzkommando 14 murdered thirteen Roma men, women, and children from a nearby settlement. This local execution followed the suppression of the Slovak National Uprising and formed part of...

Roma women and children from Čierny Balog were forced into a wooden hut in the Jegrovo Valley and burned alive by members of the 18th SS Panzergrenadier Division “Horst Wessel.” The attack targeted...

A transport of 157 Hungarian Roma men was sent to Dachau for forced labour. By 21 December, around 1,100 Roma from Hungary had been sent there; women were transferred onward to Ravensbrück and...