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13 May 1939 | A German Sinti girl, Anna Reinhardtm was born in Niersbach.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 18 March 1943.
No. Z-4763
Date of death: 18 May 1943.

20 May 1894 | A German Sinti woman, Bernhardine Einacker, was born in Salchendorf.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 27 March 1943.
No. Z-5887
She perished in the camp on 30 July 1943.

2 June 1921 | A German Sinti, Anton Reinhardt, was born in Sulzbach.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 18 March 1943.
No. Z-4157
He perished in the camp on 27 December 1943.

6 June 1904 | An Austrian Roma Franz Berger was born. A miner.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 16 April 1943.
No. Z-6285
He perished in the camp on 19 August 1943.

17 May 1943 | Roma girl Gisela Ernst was born at Zigeunerlager at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. She was registered with no. Z-8868.

She perished in the camp on 4 June 1943.

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5 June 1870 | A Czech Sinti woman, Antonie Hauer, was born in Kutná Hora.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 11 March 1943.
No. Z-2037
She perished in the camp on 11 June 1943.

March 23, 1943 | Some 1,700 Sinti and Roma coming from Bialystok placed in barracks 20- 22 in the so-called Gypsy camp (Zigeunerlager) in Birkenau are taken to gas chambers and murdered on suspicion of having typhus.

Less than 9 % of the Roma deported to Auschwitz survived.

15 May 1926 | A German Sinti, Heinz Petermann, was born.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 9 March 1943.
No. Z-1597
He perished in the camp on 14 April 1943.

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3 June 1942 | A German Sinti girl, Käthe Kaikoni, was born in Hamburg.

In #Zigeunerlager in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 15 March 1943.
No. Z-3810
Date of death: 31 March 1943.

29 May 1935 | A German Sinti girl, Gerda Winterstein, was born in Duisburg.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 13 March 1943.
No. Z-3181
She perished in the camp on 3 November 1943.

12 May 1914 | A Czech Roma, Isidor Holomek, was born in Kněžpole.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 19 March 1943.
No. Z-4529
He perished in the camp on 12 June 1943.

21 May 1886 | A German Sinti woman, Melitta Laubinger, was born in Regglisweiler.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 8 March 1943.
No. Z-1512
Date of death: 12 June 1943.

24 May 1943 | SS-Hauptsturmführer Josef #Mengele received his transfer order to the #Auschwitz concentration camp. he began his service there on May 30 as he became the chief physician of the Zigeunerlager (sector for Sinti and Roma) at Auschwitz II-Birkenau.

Initially he was…

30 Mayıs 1943 | SS doktoru Josef Mengele, Auschwitz II-Birkenau'daki #Zigeunerlager 'in (Çingene kampı) başhekimi oldu. Neredeyse 32 yaşındaydı. Başta ikizler olmak üzere #Auschwitz mahkumları üzerinde ölümcül işkenceli sözde tıbbi deneylerden sorumluydu

1 June 1941 | A German Sinti boy, Adam Lehmann, was born in Friedberg.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 13 March 1943.
No. Z-2391
He perished in the camp on 27 April 1943.

14 May 1940 | A German Sinti boy, Adolf Braun, was born in Bremen.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 12 March 1943.
No. Z-2088
He perished in the camp on 15 April 1943.

30 May 1943 | SS doctor Josef Mengele became the chief physician of the #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. He was almost 32 years old. He was responsible for deadly pseudo-medical experiments on #Auschwitz prisoners, mainly twins.

8 June 1935 | A German Sinti boy, Bruno Pohl, was born in Leipzig.

In #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau from 18 March 1943.
No. Z-3714
He perished in the camp on 25 October 1943.

20 May 1915 | A German Sinti August Frolian was born in Berlin.

He was incarcerated in #Zigeunerlager (Gypsy camp) in #Auschwitz II-Birkenau on 30 March 1943
No. Z-5600
He was later transferred to KL Mittelbau-Dora. He survived.

Today is Romani Resistance Day, which commemorates the day in 1944 when 6,000 Romani prisoners in the Zigeunerlager at Auschwitz-Birkenau learned that they were all to be gassed, and rose up to fight back with “stones, iron pipes, wood panels, barbed wire [and] smuggled pikes.”