Overview
- Description
- Consists of a copy of an excerpt from "Polnische zigeuner: historische und sittenkizzen" by Jerzy Ficowski. The excerpt contains information relating to the treatment and persecution of Roma in Poland during World War II and their suffering in concentration camps. Also included is information about medical experiments conducted on Roma children (twins) by Josef Mengele, the imprisonment and murder of Roma in Auschwitz-Birkenau, and Roma transport statistics.
Physical Details
- Extent
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1 folder
Rights & Restrictions
- Conditions on Access
- There are no known restrictions on access to this material.
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Keywords & Subjects
- Topical Term
- Children, Romani. Concentration camps. Human experimentation in medicine. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź. Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw. Physicians. Racism. Romanies--France. Romanies--Germany. Romani Genocide, 1939-1945. Romanies--Poland. Statistics. Transports. Typhus fever.
- Personal Name
- Mengele, Josef, 1911- Ficowski, Jerzy.
Administrative Notes
- Holder of Originals
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Anton Fojn
- Legal Status
- Permanent Collection
- Provenance
- The copy of the typescript excerpt was donated to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Archives by Anton Fojn in Jan.1987 along with three other folders of materials relating to Roma. The four folders were treated as separate accessions, but were assigned the same accession number, 1987.007
- Record last modified:
- 2022-07-28 21:51:29
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