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1942
Poland
Antigypsyism

Mass Murder of Roma in Chełmno

Around 4,300 Roma and Sinti deported from the Łódź Ghetto were murdered at the Chełmno extermination camp using gas vans. This operation formed part of Aktion Reinhard, the Nazi plan to annihilate Jewish and Roma populations across occupied Poland.

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