Neuengamme

Christian Römmer

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1940

25 July 1940The first Sinti and Roma are sent to the Neuengamme concentration camp in Germany, which was initially set up as a satellite camp of the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in December 1938 and became an independent camp in spring 1940.

10 December 1940At least 30 Roma from the Austrian Burgenland are included in a transport arriving at Neuengamme concentration camp from Buchenwald concentration camp.

1942

4 September 1942On 4 or 5 September, the Sinto Johann Wilhelm ‘Rukeli’ Trollmann, German light heavyweight boxing champion in 1933, is sent to Neuengamme concentration camp in Germany, where his date of death is registered as 9 February 1943.

1983

8 – 9 September 1983The Rom and Cinti Union e. V. organises a hunger strike at the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial site in Germany and obtains access to the ‘Landfahrer files’ of the Hamburg criminal police department, which were handed over to the Hamburg State Archives in 1980.

1989

18 February 1989In the fight for a permanent right to stay in Germany, Roma organise a hunger strike in the ‘House of Documents’, the exhibition space of the Neuengamme Memorial, Germany, which ends after about two weeks.

28 August 1989Several hundred Roma occupy parts of the grounds of the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial in Germany to fight for a permanent right to stay in Germany. The police clear the protest camp after about five weeks.

1993

16 May 1993Representatives of the Rom and Cinti Union e. V. announce that they will occupy the grounds of the Neuengamme concentration camp memorial as a ‘place of refuge’ from the danger of expulsion. A massive police presence prevents the plan; a vigil by Roma on an access road lasts for a two-week period.

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