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Jeanne Modis-Galut
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1934
7 January 193464 Norwegian Roma are expelled from Belgium and leave the country for Oslo, Norway. Two days later, they board a ship in Hamburg, Germany. On arrival in Trelleborg, Sweden, they are turned away by the authorities and have to return to Hamburg by ship.
20 – 21 January 1934At the railway station in Padborg (Pattburg), Denmark, located on the German-Danish border, 68 Roma’s attempt to return to their home country of Norway fails.
7 March 1934The German police escort a group of over 60 Norwegian Roma to the Belgian border town of Herbestahl. They are temporarily taken in there to negotiate their repatriation with Norway. Norway refuses to allow the Roma to enter the country. Most of them are deported to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp around ten years later.
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.
1944
15 April 1944473 Sinti and Roma, women and girls, are transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.