Flossenbürg

1 October 1938Heinrich Horvath, Wenzel Horvath and Alois Sarkösi, originally from Austria, are transferred from Dachau concentration camp in Germany to Flossenbürg. According to current knowledge, these are the first Roma to be deported to Flossenbürg.

9 May 194439 children, all of them Sinti, are deported from the St. Josefspflege children’s home in Mulfingen, Germany, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Only four children survive the deportation and are transferred to Buchenwald and Ravensbrück, including Luise Mai and Rosa Georges. The two girls experience their liberation in Dachau; in the meantime, they were also imprisoned in the Wolkenburg satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany.

27 May 194482 Sinti and Roma are transferred from Auschwitz concentration camp to Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany and registered there. The majority of the men perform forced labour in various satellite camps from January 1945 at the latest.

1 September 1944The Graslitz, Wolkenburg and Zwodau satellite camps, which had previously been assigned to Ravensbrück, were placed under the Flossenbürg concentration camp. There were more than 500 Romani  women, in these satellite camps. Among them were Lily van Angeren-Franz, Rosa Höllenreiner and Elisabeth Schneck-Guttenberger, who fled during a death march.

14 September 1944Vaclav Ferda, Josef Florian, Willi Rose, Emil Růžička and Johann Stojka are transferred from the Auschwitz I concentration camp to Flossenbürg concentration camp in a transport with a total of 100 prisoners. The five men had previously been transferred from camp section BIIe in Auschwitz-Birkenau to the main camp, some of them as early as 1943.

12 January 1945Together with other Sinti and Roma, Louise Maitre is transferred from Wolkenburg, a satellite camp of Flossenbürg concentration camp, Germany, to Ravensbrück.

20 January 1945In the Zwodau satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany, around 200 Hungarian Roma women were imprisoned alongside German-speaking Sinti women.

13 April 1945The women of the Wolkenburg satellite camp, Germany, including Rosa Mettbach, Marie Fröhlich and Mädie Franz, are first driven by the SS towards the Flossenbürg concentration camp and then to Dachau. On this death march, five women, including three Sinti or Roma, were shot near Irrenlohe.

23 April 1945US troops liberate the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany.

17 April 2016A memorial to the Sinti and Roma murdered in the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany is unveiled on the anniversary of the liberation.