Detention- and Work Camps

Families cooking in the “Gypsy” camp at Marzahn on the outskirts of Berlin in 1939.

H1. BERLIN-MARZAHN (D)

© German Federal Archives, Koblenz, Germany.

A German Sinti family in Blickendorf Camp in Cologne on 12 December 1937.

© German Federal Archives, Koblenz, Germany.

Drawing of the camp made by one of the prisoners.

H3. DUBNICA NAD VÁHOM (SK)

© Private collection of Karol Janas, Považská Bystrica, Slovakia.

Höherweg “Gypsy” Camp in Düsseldorf.

H4. DÜSSELDORF (D)

© German Federal Archives, Koblenz, Germany.

“Gypsy” camp in the former Beginenstrasse in Uckendorf, a suburb of Gelsenkirchen.

H5. GELSENKIRCHEN (D)

© German Federal Archives, Koblenz, Germany.

Inmates of the Hamburg-Harburg “Gypsy” Camp being interviewed in 1938 by police or perhaps by employees of the “race researcher” Robert Ritter.

H6. HAMBURG (D)

© German Federal Archives, Koblenz, Germany.

Photograph of Roma women and children in the Hodonín u Kunštátu detention camp taken by O. Kucery in 1942.

H7. HODONÍN U KUNSTÁTU (CZ)

© Museum of Roma Culture, Brno, Czech Republic.

H8. KOMÁROM (H)

© Private collection of Szabolcs Szita, Budapest, Hungary.

Photograph of a Viennese policeman guarding Roma families deported to Lackenbach Camp taken on 23 November 1940, the day the camp opened.

H9. LACKENBACH (A)

© Private collection of Leopold Banny, Lackenbach, Austria.

A 1943 drawing showing the layout of the labour camp and later “Gypsy” camp at Lety u Písku.

H10. LETY U PÍSKU (CZ)

© State Administration Archives, Prague, Czech Republic

A building in the “Gypsy” camp in the former Litzmannstadt ghetto in Łódz´, Poland.

© Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington, Washington D.C., USA.

Photograph of Sinti women and children taken in Maxglan Camp near Salzburg in 1939 or 1940.

H12. MAXGLAN (A)

© Documentation Centre of German Sinti and Roma, Heidelberg, Germany

Belgian Roma families at a funeral meal in the Elewijt Camp on the outskirts of Mechelen/Malines in 1944.

H13. MECHELEN / MALINES (B)

© Dossin Barracks Memorial Site in Mechelen/Malines, Belgium.

Photograph of a group of children in the MontreuilBellay internment camp, probably taken from one of the watchtowers.

H14. MONTREUIL-BELLAY (F)

© Private collection of Jacques Sigot, Châteauneuf-les-Martigues, France.

Anuta Branzan (second right) and her sisters in 1942. An aunt had the photograph taken a few days before their deportation, to have a memento of her nieces.

H15. TRANSNISTRIA (UA)

© Private collection of Michelle Kelso, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Young Sinti in the Weyer Camp photographed by the camp doctor Alois Staufer in the summer of 1941.

© Private collection of Andreas Maislinger, Innsbruck, Austria.

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