Berlin-Marzahn concentration camp

Berlin-Marzahn was a camp set up for Romani people in the Berlin suburb of Marzahn by Nazi authorities.

At 4 a.m. on 16 July 1936, prior to the opening of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, police began arresting all Romani people in Greater Berlin and forcibly relocated them to Marzahn, an open field in eastern Berlin sandwiched between a cemetery and a sewage dump.cite web|url=http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/article.php?lang=en&ModuleId=10005482|title=Persecution of Roma (Gypsies) in Prewar Germany, 1933-1939|date=2008-05-20|publisher=United States Holocaust Memorial Museum|accessdate=2008-07-08] cite book|last= Friedlaender|first=Saul|title=Nazi Germany and the Jews|publisher=HarperCollins|location=New York|date=1997|volume=I: The Years of Persecution, 1933-1939|url=http://www.nizkor.org/ftp.cgi/camps/ftp.py?camps//marzahn//marzahn-established Friedlaender puts the date of the initial arrests aat May 1936, not July] Later, the prison would be surrounded by barbed wire and prisoners were subject to forced labour in armament plants.

Eventually, the men from Marzahn would be sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp (in 1938), and women and children were sent to Auschwitz (in 1943).

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ee also

* Porajmos