October – December 1943Raids are carried out in the area of the German Military Commander for Belgium and Northern France, and the Sinti and Roma who were seized were then transferred to the ‘SS transit camp’ in Mechelen so that they could be deported from there.
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.
