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.
The first part of the memorial is inaugurated at Dossin barracks, a former ‘SS transit camp’ in Mechelen, Belgium. On 2 November 2012, the new building, which will henceforth be known as ‘Kazerne Dossin. Memorial, Museum and Documentation Centre on the Holocaust and Human Rights’ is also opened.
