Auschwitz-Birkenau

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1944

15 April 1944884 Sinti and Roma, men and boys, are transferred from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp to Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany. One prisoner dies during the transport or manages to escape, as 883 are registered in Buchenwald.

2 – 3 August 1944In the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, the approximately 4,200 to 4,300 Sinti and Roma remaining in Camp Section BIIe are murdered in the gas chambers during the night of 2 to 3 August.

2 August 1944919 Sinti and Roma, men and boys, are transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp 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.

25 September 1944200 male Sinti and Roma, all of them children and teenagers, are transported from Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Only two survivors of this transport are known: Alfred Rosenbach and Rudolf Böhmer.

10 October 194449 Sinti and Roma, all women, are transferred from Altenburg, a satellite camp of Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.

11 October 1944110 Sinti and Roma, all women, are transferred from Hasag-Taucha, a satellite camp from Buchenwald concentration camp, Germany, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Joséphine Lagrené and Jeanne Marie Modis-Galut are among the prisoners.

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