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
15 March 1943Presumably on this day, the Dycha family of ten is arrested in Hrušky for deportation to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp (German-annexed Poland). Thanks to the support of local officials, they are released. However, they are later deported to Auschwitz on the fourth transport from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech Lands). No one survives.
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’.
