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Auschwitz
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1944
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 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.
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 (German-annexed Poland). 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 (German-annexed Poland).
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 (German-annexed Poland). Joséphine Lagrené and Jeanne Marie Modis-Galut are among the prisoners.
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