Ravensbrück

29 June 1939A transport of 440 Sintize and Romnja from Lower Austria and Burgenland arrives at Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany. The prisoners include young people aged 14 and over.

5 March 1941Katharina Waitz is brutally murdered in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany, after being recaptured by the SS following her escape from the camp.

23 May 1942A transport from the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp includes Sintize and Romnja.

30 January 1944A transport from the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany to the Lublin-Majdanek concentration and extermination camp includes Sintize and Romnja.

15 April 1944473 Sinti and Roma, women and girls, are transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.

9 May 194439 children, all of them Sinti, are deported from the St. Josefspflege children’s home in Mulfingen, Germany, to the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. Only four children survive the deportation and are transferred to Buchenwald and Ravensbrück, including Luise Mai and Rosa Georges. The two girls experience their liberation in Dachau; in the meantime, they were also imprisoned in the Wolkenburg satellite camp of the Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany.

24 May 1944161 Sinti and Roma, women and girls, are transported from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.

2 August 1944535 Sinti and Roma, women and girls, together with 490 men and boys, are transferred from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.

29 August 1944210 Hungarian Roma, all women, are deported from Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp to Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.

19 September 1944Rudolf Franz is born in Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany, and dies there on 5 October 1944. He is one of 51 children of Sintize and Romnja who are born in Ravensbrück until April 1945, with little chance of survival.

14 November 1944157 Hungarian Roma, all men, are sent to Dachau concentration camp in Germany. By 21 December 1944, a total of around 1,100 Roma, men and women, from Hungary are sent to Dachau for forced labour. The women are transferred to Ravensbrück and Bergen-Belsen shortly afterwards.

28 November 1944290 Hungarian Romnja are deported together with Hungarian Jews from the Komárom camp, Hungary, to the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany.

18 January 1945A transport from Käsmark, Slovakia, arrives at Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany with 15 mostly Hungarian Romnja as well as Jewish women.

2 March 1945A transport of 1,918 women from the Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany to the Mauthausen concentration camp in German-attached Austria included 800 Sintize and Romnja with babies and small children.

3 March 1945211 Roma and Sinti are transferred to Sachsenhausen concentration camp as part of a partial evacuation of the men’s camp in Ravensbrück, Germany. Many of the men were former Wehrmacht soldiers.

6 March 1945A transport of prisoners from Ravensbrück arrives at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, including female Sinti and Roma with their children.

26 March 1945A transport of prisoners from Ravensbrück arrives at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, including Sinti and Roma women with their children.

30 April 1945The Ravensbrück concentration camp in Germany is liberated by soldiers of the Soviet Red Army.

25 March 1995A memorial room for the Sinti and Roma murdered in the Ravensbrück concentration camp, Germany, is opened in the basement of the cell building at the Ravensbrück Memorial.