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Antoine Lagrené
Timeline
1940
6 April 1940The French Government orders the ‘house arrest’ of ‘nomads’ throughout French territory. This abolishes freedom of movement for Sinti and Roma by decree.
10 May 1940Germany extends the war to Western Europe; the Wehrmacht invades Belgium, France, Luxembourg and the Netherlands.
1942
16 December 1942‘Auschwitz Decree’: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (‘Reichsführer-SS’), orders the deportation of Sinti and Roma from the German Reich to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.
1943
29 March 1943The Reich Security Main Office orders the deportation of Roma and Sinti from German-occupied territories and countries (Belgium, Bialystok district, Alsace, Lorraine, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and northern France) to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.
23 November 1943In Flers-en-Escrebieux (Pont-de-la-Deûle department), the Lagrené family of 15 is arrested in order to transfer them via the Loos-lez-Lille prison to the ‘SS transit camp’ in Mechelen (German-occupied Belgium and northern France).
9 December 1943The German criminal police in the area of the German Military Commander for Belgium and Northern France draw up a list with the name of 351 Sinti and Roma who are destined for deportation. One woman, Jeanne Royenne Vados, is later deported without having been registered on this list.
1944
15 January 1944From the ‚SS transit camp‘ in Mechelen, German-occupied Belgium, 352 men, women and children are deported on the train known as ‚Transport Z‘ to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp, where they arrive two days later. One-year-old Georgette Hédouin dies during the transport.
15 April 1944473 Sinti and Roma, women and girls, are transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.
2 August 1944919 Sinti and Roma, men and boys, are transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp to Buchenwald concentration camp in Germany. 918 are registered in Buchenwald on 3 August. Josef Freiwald escapes while the train is near Weimar, but is recaptured and taken into custody in Buchenwald on 6 September 1944.
11 October 1944110 Sinti and Roma, all women, are transferred from Hasag-Taucha, a satellite camp from Buchenwald concentration camp, to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Joséphine Lagrené and Jeanne-Marie Modis-Galut are among the prisoners.
1945
11 April 1945Buchenwald concentration camp is liberated by US troops.
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.
30 April 1945The Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany is liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Red Army.
2012
8 May 2012The names of the members of the Lagrené family murdered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp are inscribed on the war memorial in the town of Flers-en-Escrebieux, France.
Encyclopaedia of the Nazi Genocide of the Sinti and Roma in Europe
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