Testimony about the mass killing of the Roma in Krusevac

Identifier
293-6 to 180
Language of Description
English
Dates
1941 - 1945
Level of Description
Series
Languages
  • Serbian
Scripts
  • Cyrillic
Source
EHRI

Extent and Medium

About 170 items.

Scope and Content

Testimonies collected in October 1944 by the SCICOS local commission in Krusevac, central Serbia, about the mass killing of the Roma male population that had taken place in September 1941, when they had been collected by the German army and shot as retaliation measure for a group of German soldier killed several days before by the partisans.

The testimonies were collected during the war by the SCICOS local commision among Roma women whose husbands, sons, fathers had been killed in September 1941.

Conditions Governing Access

Free access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Reproduction allowed

Archivist Note

Description by Milovan Pisarri.

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0