The Emmler Sinti family deported to #Auschwitz.

From the left: Wally (b. 1936), Elisabeth (b. 1917), Ali (b. 1938) and Oscar (b. 1935)

Ali Emmler perished in the camp on 24 November 1943.

Our #podcsat tells about the fate of Sini & Roma in Auschwitz: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-7-the-fate-of-Roma-and-Sinti-in-Auschwitz-e15lgul

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"On Auschwitz" (7): the fate of Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz by On Auschwitz

At least 23,000 Roma and Sinti people - including 11 thousand children were deported by the Nazi German regime to Auschwitz. After the Jews and Poles they are the third largest groups of the victims of the camp. The vast majority lost their lives as a result of hunger, brutal treatment, pseudo-medical experiments or were murdered in gas chambers. According to the documentation over 91 percent of the Roma deported to Auschwitz were murdered in the camp I spoke to Teresa Wontor Cichy from the Research Center of the Memorial about the fate or Roma and Sinti in Auschwitz.

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16 December 1942 | SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler ordered the deportation of all remaining Roma and Sinti from the Third Reich territory to concentration camps.

January 1943 RSHA instructions specified that they should be sent to Auschwitz.

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Learn about the fate of some 23 thousand Roma and Sinti deported to Auschwitz.
See our online lesson: http://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschwitz/

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Listen to the podcast about their story: https://anchor.fm/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-7-the-fate-of-Roma-and-Sinti-in-Auschwitz-e15lgul

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