Auschwitz

Auschwitz
   Nazi concentration camp in Poland. Auschwitz (Os-wiecim) was opened in 1940, and Gypsies were among its first prisoners. Several transports of Czech Gypsies arrived in the camp in 1942. A satellite camp was opened nearby at Auschwitz-Birkenau, and in March 1943 a Gypsy Family Section was created within the barbed-wire fences of the larger camp. Between March 1943 and August 1944, more than 20,000 Romanies were brought to Auschwitz and held in poor conditions. The death rate from disease and malnutrition was high, especially among the children. On 16 May 1944 the Schutzstaffel (Storm Troopers) (SS) attempted to take the Gypsies to the gas chambers but were frustrated by resistance with improvised weapons. Following this, all the able adult internees were sent to other camps to work, and the remaining prisoners, some 2,900 women, children, and elderly men, were gassed on the night of 2/3 August 1944. The memorial to the several million people killed in Auschwitz has an inscription in Romani.

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