16 December 1940The eleven-member Marinkovitch family is arrested in their home town of Calais (German-occupied northern France) because it is part of the ‘Forbidden Coastal Zone’ and deported to the interior of France.
1941
10 April 1941The military administration for Belgium and Northern France prohibits Sinti and Roma from living in the Coastal Zone (East and West Flanders and the Antwerp district).
1943
6 February 1943Nine Sinti and Roma, men between the ages of 16 and 32, are arrested in the ‘Forbidden Coastel Zone’ in Antwerp, German-occupied Belgium. They are transferred to Germany via the prison in Antwerp, the Citadel of Huy and the Saint-Gilles prison in Brussels and deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp in November 1943. Only one of them, Joseph Collicon, survives.
23 November 1943In Tournai, German-occupied Belgium, 19 members of the Karoli family are arrested by the Feldgendarmerie.
1944
19 May 1944In the German-occupied Netherlands, 245 Sinti and Roma and 208 Jews are deported from the transit camp Westerbork to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. In Assen, German-occupied Netherlands, twelve Sinti and Roma are loaded onto this train. Thanks to the help of a policeman, Zoni Weisz escapes deportation with her aunt and cousins. A deportation train from Mechelen (Dossin barracks), German-occupied Belgium, is coupled to the train from Westerbork en route; on this train is a Rom named Stevo Karoli.
