19 September 1942In Slovakia, Interior Minister Alexander Mach issues Decree No. 419/1942, which tightens the conditions in the ‘work departments’ for ‘asocials’ and Roma.
1944
2 November 1944The Ministry of National Defence of the Slovak State orders the establishment of a detention camp for Roma in Dubnica nad Váhom.
1945
23 February 194526 Roma from the detention camp in Dubnica nad Váhom, Slovak State, are led out of the camp and shot on the grounds of a nearby factory.
5 May 1945A mass grave containing the bodies of 26 Roma is opened near the former Slovakian state’s Dubnica nad Váhom detention camp. During the exhumation, it is discovered that one of the victims was seven months pregnant and that eight people had been buried alive.
