The Nazi genocide of the Sinti and Roma
and the long struggle for recognition
and the long struggle for recognition
The Nazi genocide
of the Sinti and Roma and the
long struggle for recognition
of the Sinti and Roma and the
long struggle for recognition
„Racial Diagnosis:Gypsy“
Transfers to concentration camps
The SS took charge of the concentration camps early on and proceeded systematically to expand the concentration camp system. In the course of the mass arrests of 1938 and 1939, hundreds of Sinti and Roma were deported to Dachau and to the newly built Buchenwald, Sachsenhausen, Mauthausen and Ravensbrück concentration camps. Maltreated as slave labour for companies owned by the SS, a high proportion of these prisoners succumbed to the inhumane living conditions and the reign of terror imposed by the guards.
01.1 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938 Federal Archives, R 165/58
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01.2 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/58
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01.3 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/58
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02.1 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/58
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02.2 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/58
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02.3 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/58
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03.1 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/58
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03.2 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/58
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03.3 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/58
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04 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/52
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05 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/52
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06 | Photographs from the identification records of Sinti interned at the Dachau and Sachsenhausen concentration camps in June 1938. Federal Archives, R 165/52
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07 | Roma from the Austrian province of Burgenland during roll call at Buchenwald concentration camp, autumn 1939 Buchenwald Memorial Site
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08 | A Romani inmate, with her head shaved, at Ravensbrück women’s concentration camp Federal Archives, R 165/65
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09 | Oswald Strauss (right) was deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938. He survived. Documentation Centre Archives
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10 | Franz Reinhardt was arrested in June 1938 and sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, where he was murdered in December 1940. In May 1940 his daughter Lucia (left) was deported to occupied Poland, where her mother and her two siblings were murdered. Documentation Centre Archives
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11.1 | Bruno Ernst was deported to Sachsenhausen concentration camp in 1938. He later died at Mauthausen concentration camp. Documentation Centre Archives
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11.2 | Letter from Bruno Ernst from Sachsenhausen concentration camp dated 7 January 1940. All letters were censored by the SS. Dear Brother, Thank you for your letter and the money you’ve sent us so far, all of which we have received. It fills our hearts with joy, dear Brother, to know that you are […]
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