1943/05/25 – Ermordung von polnischen Sinti:ze und Rom:nja (Auschwitz)

25 May 1943

In Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, 507 Sinti and Roma, all men and boys, as well as 528 Sinti and Roma, all women and girls, from Camp Section BIIe are taken away and murdered in the gas chambers. They are Polish Roma from Bialystok (German-occupied Poland) and Roma from Austria.

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