Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) - Scarecrow Press

CHRONOLOGY OF GYPSY HISTORY • xxvii
1941 Baltic States: December—Governor Hinrich Lohse orders that
Gypsies should “be given the same treatment as Jews.” Croatia: Jasenovac
concentration camp opened. Czech lands: October—Decision that
Gypsies from the so-called Protectorate are to be sent to a concentration
camp. Germany: March—Exclusion of Gypsy children from school begins.
July—Reinhard Heydrich, Heinrich Himmler’s deputy, brings the
Gypsies into the plans for a Final Solution to the “Jewish problem.”
Latvia: December—All 101 Gypsies in the town of Libau are executed.
Poland: October—A Gypsy camp is set up in the Jewish ghetto of Lodz
for 5,000 inmates. Serbia: May—German military commander states that
Gypsies will be treated as Jews. November—German military command
orders the immediate arrest of all Jews and Gypsies, to be held as hostages.
Slovakia: April—Decree separating the Gypsies from the majority population.
USSR: June—Schutzstaffel (Storm Troopers) Task Forces move
into the occupied areas and systematically kill Jews and Romanies.
September—Task forces carry out mass executions of Jews and Romanies
in the Babi Yar valley. December—Task Force C murders 824 Gypsies
in Simferopol. Yugoslavia: October—German army executes 2,100
Jewish and Gypsy hostages (as reprisal for soldiers killed by partisans).
1942 Bulgaria: August—6,500 Gypsies registered by the police on
one day. Croatia: May—The government and the Ustasha order the arrest
of all Gypsies and their deportation to the extermination camp in
Jasenovac. Germany: March—A special additional income tax is
levied on Gypsies. July—A decree of the army general staff again orders
that Gypsies not be taken for active military service. September—
Himmler and Justice Minister Otto Thierack agree to transfer any Gypsies
in prison to concentration camps. December—Himmler issues the
order to deport the Gypsies in Greater Germany to the concentration
camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. Poland: January—All Sinti and Romanies
from the Lodz ghetto are transported and gassed at Chelmno.
April—Romanies are brought into the Warsaw ghetto and kept in the
prison in Gesia Street. May—All Gypsies in the Warsaw district to be
interned in Jewish ghettoes. July—Several hundred Polish Romanies
killed at Treblinka extermination camp. Romania: Spring and Summer
—Some 20,000 Romanies are deported to Transnistria. Serbia:
August—Harald Turner, head of the German military administration,
announces that “the Gypsy question has been fully solved.”