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Anna Danielová
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1939
15 March 1939German troops occupy the remaining territory of the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, i.e. the territory of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, which Germany and Poland have not occupied and annexed until then. The day after that, the newly occupied territories are established as ‘Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’. The occupation further exacerbates the situation of Sinti and Roma.
1942
16 December 1942‘Auschwitz Decree’: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (‘Reichsführer-SS’), the Reich Security Main Office and the SS Main Economic and Administrative Office, orders the deportation of Sinti and Roma from the German Reich to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.
1943
6 March 1943The first mass transport from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech Lands) to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp (German-annexed Poland) on the basis of the ‘Auschwitz decree’, numbering approx. 1,040 Roma men, women, and children, leaves the city of Brno. They are registered in the camp on 7 and 8 March.
7 May 1943About 860 men, women and children, mainly inmates of the detention camp Lety near Pisek, are registered in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp (German-annexed Poland). They were deported in the fourth mass transport from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech lands) on the basis of the ‘Auschwitz decree’.
1969
30 August 1969The Czech ‘Union of Gypsies-Roma’ [Svaz Cikánů-Romů] is officially established in Brno, Czechoslovakia.
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