Nazi deportation of Roma

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The Nazi deportation of Roma was the systematic roundup and transport of Romani people to ghettos, concentration camps, and extermination camps as part of the genocidal Porajmos during World War II.

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Nazi deportation of Roma canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf crime against humanity
ethnic persecution
forced deportation
war crime
destination AuschwitzBirkenau
surface form: Auschwitz II-Birkenau

AuschwitzBirkenau
surface form: Auschwitz concentration camp

Belzec
surface form: Belzec extermination camp

Buchenwald
surface form: Buchenwald concentration camp

Chelmo extermination camp
Dachau
surface form: Dachau concentration camp

Majdanek
surface form: Majdanek concentration camp

Ravensbrück concentration camp
Sachsenhausen concentration camp
Sobibor
surface form: Sobibor extermination camp

Stutthof concentration camp
Treblinka
surface form: Treblinka extermination camp

“Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau
documentedIn Holocaust research on the Porajmos
postwar war crimes trials
endTime 1945
estimatedVictims hundreds of thousands of Roma
implementedAs forced transport in cattle cars
internment in concentration camps
internment in ghettos
roundup of Romani communities
transfer to extermination camps
legalBasisClaimedByPerpetrators NurembergLaws
surface form: Nuremberg Laws

racial classification decrees
motivatedBy anti-Romani racism
eugenics policies
racial ideology of Nazism
opposedBy individual rescuers in occupied Europe
some church representatives
partOf Holocaust
Porajmos
perpetrator Order Police battalions
surface form: German police battalions

Gestapo
Nazi Germany
Schutzstaffel (SS)
surface form: Schutzstaffel

collaborationist authorities in occupied Europe
recognizedAs genocide
result destruction of Romani communities in Central Europe
family separation of Roma
forced labor of Roma
mass murder of Roma
startTime 1939
targetedGroup Roma
Romani children
Romani men
Romani women
Sinti
timePeriod World War II

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World War II forced migrations includesEvent Nazi deportation of Roma