1942/06/19 – Italien (Massaker Kanižarica)

19 June 1942

Slovenian partisans carry out a massacre of 41 Roma in the village of Kanižarica in the district of Črnomelj, which lies in the Italian-annexed province of Ljubljana. Not only individual Roma accused of espionage are killed, but also entire families.

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