EVENT INFORMATION

14
November
1944

Roma women and children from Čierny Balog are burned alive

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📅 14 November 1944 📍

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 families and civilians, and its perpetrators were a German Waffen-SS unit operating in Slovakia. A separate massacre at Vydrovo occurred the following day.

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Roma women and children of Čierny Balog

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18th SS Panzergrenadier Division “Horst Wessel”