In Sweden, many live with the genocide as part of their family history. Testimonies about the Nazis' crimes have been preserved because brave individuals chose to share their stories. Today, it is our shared responsibility to preserve the memory of those who were murdered.
Here below, you can click through to both thematic texts and personal stories. At the bottom of the page, you can also read exhibition texts in various Romani varieties.
Themes
Treblinka Extermination Camp
Extermination camp between the years 1942-1943. Approximately 900,000 people were murdered at Treblinka.
Photo: Tajchman Maria, CC BY-SA 4.0
Łódź Ghetto
City in Poland where the Nazis established a Jewish ghetto in 1940. When Sinti and Roma were deported there in 1941, they were placed in a segregated part of the ghetto, which came to be known as the Roma Ghetto in Łódź.
Image: Memorial monument for the Łódź Ghetto at the Jewish Cemetery in Łódź. Mbkv717, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp
Extermination and concentration camp between the years 1941-1945. Approximately 1.1 million people were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Image: One of the entrances to Auschwitz-Birkenau. pzk net, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Berlin - Capital of Germany
In Berlin was located, among other institutions, the Institute for Racial Hygiene Research.
Photo: Willy Pragher, CC BY 3.0
Mulfingen
Town in Germany where the Catholic orphanage St. Josefspflege was located.
Image: Memorial plaque for the children who lived at the orphanage and were later transported to Auschwitz. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.
Nürnberg
City in Germany where the Nazis held their annual party rallies. Racial laws were adopted at the rallies in 1935, and they became known as the Nuremberg Laws.
Image: An overview of how the Nazis viewed "racial mixing" from the Nuremberg Laws. (PD)
Dachau Concentration Camp
The first concentration camp in Nazi Germany. In 1980, a memorial ceremony and protest were held in Dachau to urge the world to recognize the genocide of Sinti and Roma during the Holocaust.
Image: Foundations of barracks at Dachau concentration camp, RealPixelStreet, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Institute for Racial Biology in Uppsala
In 1922, following a parliamentary decision, a state institute for racial biology was established in Sweden. The institute's head was the racial biologist Herman Lundborg.
Image: The Institute for Racial Biology in Uppsala. Uppsala University Library.
Buchenwald Concentration Camp
The largest concentration camp on German soil. It opened in 1937 and was liberated in 1945. A total of 240,000 prisoners passed through the camp.
Image: Buchenwald. H.Helmlechner, CC BY-SA 4.0
Sachsenhausen koncentrationsläger
Concentration camp outside Berlin. It was opened in 1936 and liberated in 1945. Horrific medical experiments were conducted in the camp on Jews, Sinti, and Roma, as well as homosexuals.
Image: Sachsenhausen. Greg Schechter (CC BY 2.0)
Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Concentration camp between the years 1939-1945. It was the only camp that was built for women. Since the majority of the prisoners were women, many children also became prisoners in the camp as well. About 90,000 people died in Ravensbrück.
Image: Ravensbrück. ho visto nina volare, CC BY-SA 2.0
Mathausen Concentration Camp
Mauthausen was a concentration camp in Austria between the years 1938–1945. The prisoners who were taken there were forced to work in the large granite quarry. Approximately 90,000 people died in the camp.
Image: Mauthausen quarry and memorial park. Dieringer63, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons
Warszawa Ghetto
In the autumn of 1940, the Jews of Warsaw were forced to move to a ghetto area in the city. In the spring of 1942, Sinti and Roma were also forced into the ghetto. A total of about 450,000 people would be held captive in the Warsaw ghetto. The ghetto was liquidated in the spring of 1943.
Image: Remains of the wall that surrounded the ghetto in Warsaw. Saifunny, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Chelmno Extermination Camp
The first extermination camp to become operational in December 1941. Among the first to be murdered in the camp were about 4,300 Sinti and Roma. People are murdered in gas vans at the camp. More than 200,000 people are murdered between the years 1941–1944.
Image: Ruins of the extermination camp Chelmno. Paweł Schmidt, CC BY-SA 3.0 PL, via Wikimedia Commons.
Jasenovac Concentration Camp
Concentration camp in Croatia that opened in 1941. Approximately 100,000 people were murdered in the camp. Somewhere between 15,000 – 20,000 Roma were murdered in the camp until 1945.
Image: Memorial over the people murdered in Jasenovac. Petar Milošević, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Jönköping
In 1948, the so-called Jönköping riots occurred when travelers were attacked by the local population.
Image: The town of Jönsköping. Moralist, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp
A concentration camp in northern Germany that was active between the years 1943-1945. At the end of the war, the camp became a final destination for tens of thousands of prisoners who were transferred there from various camps in Eastern Europe. In 1979, Sinti and Roma organizations held a demonstration at the memorial site, demanding, among other things, recognition of the genocide of Sinti and Roma.
Image: Memorial at Bergen-Belsen. Losch, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
