![Roma (Gypsies) in front of their tents. Romania, 1936-1940. [LCID: 46759]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/77157956-fb57-46a9-ad7a-71aee79d855d.jpg "Roma (Gypsies) in front of their tents. Romania, 1936-1940. [LCID: 46759]")
Scene from a Romani (Gypsy) camp: Roma (Gypsies) in front of their tents. Romania, 1936–40. (Bundesarchiv inventory number 146-2001-16-20A.)
Item View![A Serbian gendarme serving the Serbian puppet government led by Milan Nedia escorts a group of Roma (Gypsies) to their execution. [LCID: 85181]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/0624a077-a89f-487a-ac82-b366a2528be1.jpg "A Serbian gendarme serving the Serbian puppet government led by Milan Nedia escorts a group of Roma (Gypsies) to their execution. [LCID: 85181]")
A Serbian gendarme serving the Serbian puppet government led by Milan Nedić escorts a group of Roma (Gypsies) to their execution. Yugoslavia, ca. 1941–1943.
Item View![Roma (Gypsies) remove bodies from the Iasi-Calarasi death train during its stop in Tirgu-Frumos. [LCID: 27427]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/fb6f4464-5f6f-43d3-a91e-9f9665436dfb.jpg "Roma (Gypsies) remove bodies from the Iasi-Calarasi death train during its stop in Tirgu-Frumos. [LCID: 27427]")
Roma (Gypsies) remove bodies from the Iasi-Calarasi death train during its stop in Tirgu-Frumos. Two trains left Iasi on June 30, 1941, bearing survivors of the pogrom that took place in Iasi on June 28-29. Hundreds of Jews died on the transports aboard crowded, unventilated freight cars in the heat of summer. Romania, July 1, 1941.
Item View![Romani (Gypsy) children play outside at the Jargeau internment camp. [LCID: 97422]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/9340796c-f2e1-4ec6-a711-fc4ca2f16199.jpg "Romani (Gypsy) children play outside at the Jargeau internment camp. [LCID: 97422]")
Romani (Gypsy) children play outside at the Jargeau internment camp. The camp was established in response to a German order in October 1940 calling for the arrest and confinement in camps of all Frenchmen or foreigners in the Loiret region who did not have a permanent residence. Jargeau, France, 1941–45.
Conditions in the camp were extremely poor and the lack of sanitation facilities led to the periodic outbreak of epidemics.
Item View![German police guard a group of Roma (Gypsies) who have been rounded up for deportation to Poland. [LCID: 91556]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/17e2df4e-2782-448c-8a17-5a9fa5897e84.jpg "German police guard a group of Roma (Gypsies) who have been rounded up for deportation to Poland. [LCID: 91556]")
German police guard a group of Roma (Gypsies) who have been rounded up for deportation to Poland. Germany, 1940–45.
Item View![Romani (Gypsy) prisoners in Belzec labor camp. Poland, 1940. [LCID: 74705]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/bc8389c2-055f-4c37-bd48-36681987a68d.jpg "Romani (Gypsy) prisoners in Belzec labor camp. Poland, 1940. [LCID: 74705]")
A group of Romani (Gypsy) prisoners in Belzec labor camp, 1940.
The Belzec labor camp and its subsidiaries were dismantled at the end of 1940.
Item View![Romani (Gypsy) women march to work in the Lackenbach internment camp. [LCID: 29046]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/ca6d8817-638d-492e-b334-36103a92693b.jpg "Romani (Gypsy) women march to work in the Lackenbach internment camp. [LCID: 29046]")
Romani (Gypsy) women march to work in the Lackenbach internment camp. Lackenbach, Austria, 1940-1941.
Item View![View of barracks in the Lety internment camp. Lety, Czechoslovakia, wartime. [LCID: 98467]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/7bd382d2-8604-4972-8868-14b016bcaaff.jpg "View of barracks in the Lety internment camp. Lety, Czechoslovakia, wartime. [LCID: 98467]")
View of barracks in the Lety internment camp. Lety, Czechoslovakia, wartime.
Item View![Marzahn, the first internment camp for Roma (Gypsies) in the Third Reich. [LCID: 86204]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5fa9e003-521d-4ec0-960a-bb54bb0cd72a.jpg "Marzahn, the first internment camp for Roma (Gypsies) in the Third Reich. [LCID: 86204]")
Marzahn, the first internment camp for Roma (Gypsies) in the Third Reich. Germany, date uncertain.
Item View![A man works outside his family's dwelling in a Roma (Gypsy) encampment in the city of Haarlem. [LCID: 07872]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/5e36df32-7ba3-44cb-8408-3d92b717f602.jpg "A man works outside his family's dwelling in a Roma (Gypsy) encampment in the city of Haarlem. [LCID: 07872]")
A man works outside his family's dwelling in a Roma (Gypsy) encampment in the city of Haarlem. The Netherlands, October–November 1940.
Item View![Romani (Gypsy) women boil laundry and hang it to dry in the middle of the caravan camp at Marzahn. [LCID: 82685]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/57716e3d-4c3f-4a72-a400-e1be11b08317.jpg "Romani (Gypsy) women boil laundry and hang it to dry in the middle of the caravan camp at Marzahn. [LCID: 82685]")
Romani (Gypsy) women boil laundry and hang it to dry in the middle of the camp at Marzahn. Germany, June 1936.
Shortly before the opening of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, the police ordered the arrest and forcible relocation of all Roma in Greater Berlin to Marzahn, an open field located near a cemetery and sewage dump in eastern Berlin. Police surrounded all Romani encampments and transported the inhabitants and their wagons to Marzahn.
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![View of the entrance to the Gypsy camp on Brzezinska Street in the Lodz ghetto. [LCID: 38093]](https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/images/large/12c11de0-ec1c-4565-81a6-740defc8f78a.jpg "View of the entrance to the Gypsy camp on Brzezinska Street in the Lodz ghetto. [LCID: 38093]")