15 April 1944884 Sinti and Roma, men and boys, are transferred from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp (German-annexed Poland) to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany. One prisoner dies during the transport or manages to escape, as 883 are registered in Buchenwald.
2 – 3 August 1944On the evening of 2 August, at the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp (German-annexed Poland), the approximately 4,300 Sinti and Roma remaining in Camp Section BIIe are murdered in gas chamber V. On the morning of 3 August, the SS murders those who had managed to hide.
2 August 1944919 Sinti and Roma, men and boys, are transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp (German-annexed Poland) to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. 918 are registered in Buchenwald on 3 August. Josef Freiwald escapes while the train is near Weimar, but is recaptured and taken into custody in Buchenwald on 6 September 1944.
