“Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau

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The “Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau was a segregated section of the Nazi concentration and extermination complex where Roma families were imprisoned together under brutal conditions before mass murder.

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instanceOf Nazi concentration camp subcamp
Roma and Sinti internment facility
section of Auschwitz II-Birkenau
administrativelySubordinateTo Auschwitz camp commandant
alsoKnownAs Familienzigeunerlager NERFINISHED
Gypsy camp
Zigeunerlager NERFINISHED
approximatePopulation around 23,000 Roma and Sinti deported there
category Nazi war crimes
sites of the Porajmos
commemoratedAs site of Roma Genocide remembrance
commemoratedOn 2 August (Roma Holocaust Memorial Day in several countries)
countryAtTime Nazi Germany NERFINISHED
dateEstablished February 1943
establishedBy Reich Security Main Office NERFINISHED
SS Main Economic and Administrative Office NERFINISHED
establishedUnder Heinrich Himmler NERFINISHED
feature barracks surrounded by barbed wire
extreme malnutrition
families were not separated by sex
medical experiments on prisoners
men, women, and children held together
overcrowded wooden barracks
rampant disease
firstTransportArrived February 1943 GENERATED
function extermination through hunger, disease, and murder
forced labor
imprisonment of Roma families
guardedBy SS-Totenkopfverbände NERFINISHED
historicalSignificance central site of the Nazi genocide of Roma and Sinti
liquidationDate 2 August 1944
liquidationEvent mass gassing of remaining Roma prisoners
liquidationVictimsEstimate about 2,900 Roma murdered on 2–3 August 1944
locatedIn Birkenau NERFINISHED
German-occupied Poland NERFINISHED
Oświęcim NERFINISHED
memorialAtSite Roma and Sinti memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau NERFINISHED
notablePerpetratorPresent Josef Mengele GENERATED
Rudolf Höss GENERATED
operatedBy Nazi Germany NERFINISHED
SS NERFINISHED
partOf Auschwitz II-Birkenau NERFINISHED
Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex NERFINISHED
persecutionBasis Nazi racial ideology
policyContext Nazi racial persecution of Roma and Sinti
Porajmos
populationFrom Austria NERFINISHED
Bohemia and Moravia NERFINISHED
Germany NERFINISHED
Poland NERFINISHED
other occupied European countries
relatedEvent Holocaust NERFINISHED
Porajmos (Roma genocide) NERFINISHED
targetedGroup Roma NERFINISHED
Roma children
Roma men
Roma women
Sinti NERFINISHED
totalVictimsEstimate most of approximately 23,000 prisoners perished
usedFor forced labor for SS enterprises
mass murder of Roma and Sinti
pseudo-medical experiments by Josef Mengele

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Nazi deportation of Roma destination “Gypsy family camp” at Auschwitz-Birkenau