1943/02/26 – Erste Deportation (Auschwitz-Birkenau/BIIe)

26 February 1943

The first Sinti and Roma are deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in Camp Section BIIe on the basis of the ‘Auschwitz Decree’. From 1 March 1943, further deportation trains with Sinti and Roma arrive almost daily.

Lemma A–Z

Auschwitz (Bricklayer School)

Magdeburg

Zigeunerlager (Term)

van Angeren-Franz, Lily

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