• The Gypsy family camp (German: Zigeunerfamilienlager) was Section B-IIe of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp, where Romani families deported...
    4 KB (480 words) - 06:08, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Romani Holocaust
    Reich, and most were sent to the specially established Gypsy concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau. Other Roma were deported there from the Nazi-occupied...
    82 KB (9,004 words) - 10:39, 14 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Auschwitz concentration camp
    Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz, pronounced [kɔntsɛntʁaˈtsi̯oːnsˌlaːɡɐ ˈʔaʊʃvɪts] ; also KL Auschwitz or KZ Auschwitz)...
    185 KB (21,022 words) - 20:56, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Theresienstadt family camp
    reasons, the SS had established a "Gypsy camp" at the BIIe section inside Auschwitz II-Birkenau where Romani and Sinti families were kept together and non-productive...
    53 KB (6,455 words) - 19:55, 11 May 2024
  • Censorship in Auschwitz concentration camp (German: Konzentrationslager Auschwitz; also K.L. Auschwitz) followed the broader pattern of political and cultural...
    36 KB (4,341 words) - 11:33, 15 May 2024
  • Elisabeth Guttenberger (category Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners)
    Holocaust and testified at the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials after having been interned at the Gypsy family camp. Born in Stuttgart on 6 February 1926, Guttenberger...
    11 KB (907 words) - 16:28, 1 April 2024
  • Hermann Diamanski (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
    became camp leader of the men's camp and eventually camp leader of the gypsy camp (Zigeunerlager Auschwitz) within Auschwitz-Birkenau, used to imprison and...
    12 KB (1,515 words) - 20:41, 4 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for Gypsy jazz
    Gypsy jazz (also known as gypsy swing, jazz manouche or hot club-style jazz) is a musical idiom inspired by the Romani jazz guitarist Jean "Django" Reinhardt...
    35 KB (4,342 words) - 22:47, 13 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Romani people
    Romani people (redirect from Gypsy origin)
    novel Jane Eyre (1847) Mihály Munkácsy: Gypsy Family (1884, oil on canvas) Vincent van Gogh: The Caravans – Gypsy Camp near Arles (1888, oil on canvas) Paris...
    200 KB (18,681 words) - 00:26, 15 May 2024
  • Otto Rosenberg (writer and activist) (category Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners)
    (28 April 1927–4 July 2001), was a Holocaust survivor, author of A Gypsy in Auschwitz (1999), activist, and founder of Sinti Union of Berlin and Organization...
    6 KB (509 words) - 14:54, 15 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Holocaust
    primarily through mass shootings and poison gas in extermination camps, chiefly Auschwitz-Birkenau, Treblinka, Belzec, Sobibor, and Chełmno in occupied Poland...
    122 KB (14,541 words) - 03:13, 15 May 2024
  • Lily Franz (category Auschwitz concentration camp survivors)
    by the Kriminalpolizei and taken to Auschwitz concentration camp, where they were held in the Gypsy family camp as part of the Romani Holocaust. She...
    5 KB (435 words) - 01:36, 9 April 2023
  • Margarethe Kraus (category Auschwitz concentration camp prisoners)
    Kraus was deported to Auschwitz in 1943, aged 13, alongside her family; they were held in what became known as the Gypsy family camp. She was subjected to...
    6 KB (483 words) - 01:42, 27 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Mittelbau-Dora concentration camp
    With the dissolution of the so-called Zigeuner-Familienlager (Gypsy family camp) at Auschwitz-Birkenau, the SS transported many Roma and Sinti to Mittelbau...
    36 KB (4,309 words) - 02:09, 8 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Flag of the Romani people
    writer-activist Matéo Maximoff and a "large Gypsy delegation" took "the blue-and-green flag" to the Gypsy family camp at Auschwitz. In this commemorative context,...
    76 KB (10,279 words) - 20:54, 18 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roma Holocaust Memorial Day
    and elderly people, were killed in the Gypsy family camp (Zigeunerfamilienlager) at Auschwitz concentration camp. Some countries have chosen to commemorate...
    7 KB (580 words) - 06:08, 29 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Eva Justin
    were later sent to the "Gypsy family camp" at Auschwitz on 6 May 1944. Soon after their arrival, Josef Mengele arrived at Auschwitz. Some of the children...
    9 KB (900 words) - 16:35, 9 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Children in the Holocaust
    children from certain other targeted groups were not spared. In the Auschwitz concentration camp, Romani children were killed. Meanwhile, five to seven thousand...
    41 KB (4,746 words) - 22:48, 26 February 2024
  • Franz Lucas (category Auschwitz concentration camp medical personnel)
    Auschwitz (Truppenarzt) and operating in the Auschwitz concentration camp (Gypsy camp, Theresienstadt family camp). Afterwards, he had further short-term missions...
    8 KB (1,144 words) - 07:43, 27 January 2024
  • Nazi regime, Roma were non-Aryan. Franz was registered in the Auschwitz-Birkenau camp on 21 April 1944 with the prisoner number Z 10,550 under her maiden...
    16 KB (1,551 words) - 10:53, 6 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mechelen transit camp
    to Auschwitz-Birkenau as well as other camps including Heydebreck-Cosel. Between 4 August 1942 and 31 July 1944, 28 trains left from near the camp and...
    19 KB (1,636 words) - 08:21, 13 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Herzogenbusch concentration camp
    and Westerbork transit camps to Auschwitz concentration camp, except for 850 prisoners sent to Mauthausen concentration camp. When Amersfoort and Westerbork...
    13 KB (1,404 words) - 12:17, 4 April 2024
  • and the occupied territories to the seven camps designated as Vernichtungslager (extermination camps): Auschwitz-Birkenau Belzec Chelmno Majdanek Maly Trostenets...
    74 KB (7,962 words) - 03:10, 17 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Treblinka extermination camp
    were murdered at Treblinka than at any other Nazi extermination camp apart from Auschwitz-Birkenau. Managed by the German SS with assistance from Trawniki...
    160 KB (16,887 words) - 03:11, 26 January 2024
  • (1948). A Book of Gypsy folk-tales. London: Phoenix House. Gypsy Folk Tales by Francis Hindes Groome [1899], at Sacred Texts.com Gypsy Sorcery and Fortune...
    8 KB (754 words) - 05:33, 3 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bergen-Belsen concentration camp
    prisoners from the "special camp" were sent to Auschwitz. Thus, out of the total of 14,600 prisoners in the exchange camp, at least 3,550 died, more than...
    65 KB (7,581 words) - 03:39, 4 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Czesława Kwoka
    Czesława Kwoka (category Polish people who died in Auschwitz concentration camp)
    from her village, and transported from a resettlement camp at Zamość, General Government, to Auschwitz, on 13 December 1942, during Aktion Zamosc which was...
    28 KB (2,822 words) - 09:55, 10 February 2024
  • by Peter Solan. The majority of the film is set in the German POW camp at Auschwitz during the Holocaust and details how the Jewish Greek boxer Salamo...
    11 KB (1,122 words) - 09:20, 26 March 2024
  • Europe, Roma is common. The Romani of England call themselves Gypsies, Romanies, Romany Gypsies or (in Angloromani) Romanichal, those of Scandinavia (in Scandinavian...
    27 KB (2,620 words) - 20:16, 2 May 2024
  • Auschwitz 1940–1945: Central Issues in the History of the Camp. Vol. 1–5. ISBN 83-85047-87-5. Dwork, Deborah; van Pelt, Robert Jan (1996). Auschwitz:...
    68 KB (5,852 words) - 18:34, 6 April 2024