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1944
Hungary
Antigypsyism

Massacre in Doboz

On 5 October 1944, Hungarian gendarmes executed 20 Roma—men, women, and children—in the Doboz cemetery. The victims had been seized during mass arrests in nearby villages, tortured for days, and then separated from other detainees as Soviet forces approached. Taken to the cemetery under the pretext of spending the night, they were gunned down and killed with grenades. Two young women were released only after repeated sexual assault. The bodies were forcibly buried by Roma from a neighbouring settlement.

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