German unit executes Roma in Tisovec and abducts women and children

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...

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....

Members of Einsatzkommando 14 took Roma from the settlement of Detva-Pustovníky and murdered them in Zvolen. This was one of several documented killings of Roma in Slovakia after German forces...

Two hundred ninety Hungarian Roma women were deported with Jewish women from the Komárom camp to Ravensbrück. The transport reveals how Roma women were swept into the German concentration-camp network...

German soldiers removed sick Roma prisoners under the pretext of taking them to a hospital and murdered 26 people near the local armaments factory. The exhumation evidence showed that some victims had...

After escaping from the Nazi camp system, Anton Reinhardt was captured by a Volkssturm unit and condemned by a summary tribunal. SS officer Karl Hauger murdered him on 31 March. Reinhardt had...

US forces reached Buchenwald while organised prisoners took control as SS authority collapsed. Sinti and Roma had been confined in the camp and its forced-labour network. Liberation ended imprisonment...