1943/11/27 – Deutsch annektiertes Polen Einweisung 35 Sinti und Roma Strafkompanie Auschwitz-Birkenau

27 November 1943

35 Sinti and Roma from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech lands) are sent to the ‚penal company‘ of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp (German-annexed Poland) for acts of resistance. Thirty of them do not survive; these include Franz Daniel and Johann Daniel, who are ‘shot while attempting to escape‘ on 1 February 1944.

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Auschwitz (Penal Company)

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