“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.
Observed surface forms (1)
| Surface form | Occurrences |
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| Gypsy family camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau | 0 |
Statements (62)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Nazi concentration camp subcamp
ⓘ
Roma and Sinti internment facility ⓘ section of Auschwitz II-Birkenau ⓘ |
| administrativelySubordinateTo | Auschwitz camp commandant ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Familienzigeunerlager
NERFINISHED
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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
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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
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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
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German-occupied Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ Oświęcim NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| memorialAtSite | Roma and Sinti memorial at Auschwitz-Birkenau NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notablePerpetratorPresent |
Josef Mengele
GENERATED
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Rudolf Höss GENERATED ⓘ |
| operatedBy |
Nazi Germany
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
SS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| partOf |
Auschwitz II-Birkenau
NERFINISHED
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Auschwitz concentration and extermination camp complex NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| persecutionBasis | Nazi racial ideology ⓘ |
| policyContext |
Nazi racial persecution of Roma and Sinti
ⓘ
Porajmos ⓘ |
| populationFrom |
Austria
NERFINISHED
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Bohemia and Moravia NERFINISHED ⓘ Germany NERFINISHED ⓘ Poland NERFINISHED ⓘ other occupied European countries ⓘ |
| relatedEvent |
Holocaust
NERFINISHED
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Porajmos (Roma genocide) NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| targetedGroup |
Roma
NERFINISHED
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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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