Mass executions begin at Kremnička, killing Roma among other targeted groups

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....

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...

Members of the 18th SS Panzergrenadier Division “Horst Wessel” shot Roma from Čierny Balog in Vydrovo Valley. This followed the burning of Roma women and children in Jegrovo Valley the previous day....

Einsatzkommando 14 shot fourteen Roma in Tisovec for allegedly supporting partisans. About thirty Roma women and children were abducted the same day and also murdered at an unknown location. The...