In the period between 1933 and 1945, National Socialism stood for a gradual exclusion of various population groups. According to Nazi ideology, Jews, Sinti and Roma were not worthy of living. On 16 May 1944, the German occupiers conducted a large razzia of the 'gypsies' that lived in the Netherlands. The Dutch police assisted. Three days later, 245 Sinti and Roma were deported to Auschwitz.
Persecution of the Sinti and Roma