Marzahn, the first internment camp for Roma (Gypsies) in the Third Reich. Germany, date uncertain.
Item ViewA Romani (Gypsy) victim of Nazi medical experiments to make seawater safe to drink. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1944.
Item ViewA Romani (Gypsy) victim of Nazi medical experiments to make seawater safe to drink. Dachau concentration camp, Germany, 1944.
Item ViewSerbs and Roma (Gypsies) who have been rounded up for deportation. This photograph shows them being marched to Kozare and Jasenovac, both Croatian concentration camps. Yugoslavia, July 1942.
Item ViewRomani (Gypsy) women and children interned in the Rivesaltes transit camp. France, spring 1942.
Item ViewForced-labor camp for Roma (Gypsies). Lety, Czechoslovakia, wartime.
Item ViewRomani (Gypsy) inmates stand at attention during an inspection of the weaving mill, site of forced labor in the Ravensbrück concentration camp. In this workshop prisoners wove reed mats used to reinforce roads in swampy regions of the eastern front. Germany, between 1941 and 1944.
This photograph is from an SS propaganda album.
Item ViewOnlookers watch during the resettlement of Romani (Gypsy) families from Vienna. Austria, September–December 1939.
Item ViewAustrian police round up Romani (Gypsy) families from Vienna for deportation to Poland. Austria, September-December 1939.
Item ViewRomani (Gypsy) prisoners line up for roll call in the Dachau concentration camp. Germany, June 20, 1938.
Item ViewRomani (Gypsy) survivors in a barracks of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp during liberation. Germany, after April 15, 1945.
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