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Bergen-Belsen
Timeline
1944
24 November 1944461 women arrive at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from Allach satellite camp of Dachau concentration camp in Germany, including 125 Hungarian Roma with their children. This is the first known group Transport of Roma to this camp.
1945
1 March 194570 Sinti and Roma, all women, arrive at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, having been transferred from the Buchenwald satellite camp in Taucha.
4 March 194527 Sinti and Roma, all women and mainly of German nationality, are transferred from the Altenburg satellite camp of Buchenwald concentration camp to Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. More than half of them are under the age of 25.
6 March 1945A transport of prisoners from Ravensbrück arrives at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, including female Sinti and Roma with their children.
19 March 1945A transport of prisoners from Mauthausen arrives at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. They include the Sinti woman Antonie Steinbach and her three children.
26 March 1945A transport of prisoners from Ravensbrück arrives at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, including Sinti and Roma women with their children.
15 April 1945British soldiers liberate Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany. Around a quarter of the liberated inmates die in the following weeks as a result of their imprisonment.
17 September 1945The ‚Belsen Trial‘ begins in Lüneburg, Germany, which is also the first Auschwitz trial on German soil, as several defendants were not only deployed in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, but also in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.
1979
27 October 1979On the initiative of the German Sinti and Roma civil rights movement, the first international commemoration ceremony is held on the grounds of Bergen-Belsen memorial site with around 2,000 participants, including 500 Sinti and Roma.
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