Documents on the Genocide of the Roma in Serbia

Identifier

File 582

Language of Description

English

Dates

1941 - 1945

Level of Description

File

Languages

Serbian

Scripts

Cyrillic
Latin

Source

EHRI

Creator(s)

Државна комисија за утврђивање злочина окупатора и њихових помагача

Scope and Content

The documents are part of the Yugoslav State Commission for the Investigation of the Crimes of Occupiers and their Supporters (SCICOS) investigation on the crimes committed against the Roma and the Jews in Leskovac. The file preserves testimonies about the mass-shooting of 296 male Roma on December 11, 1941, reports by both collaborationist and post-war Yugoslav authorities.

The testimonies had been collected mostly between April and June 1945 by SCICOS special local commissions. They were used for collecting datas about the number of victims and for writing a report about the racial persecution of the Roma in German occupied Serbia.

Conditions Governing Access

Free access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Reproduction allowed

Publication Note

Several documents available at http://killingsites.org/leskovac/.

Archivist Note

Description by Milovan Pisarri

Rules and Conventions

EHRI Guidelines for Description v.1.0

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List of the victims
- Архив Jугославије
- 582-17
- English
- 1941
- 10 pages.
- Updated 6 years ago
List of the victims killed in Leskovac on December 11, 1941. Among them 293 Roma males, collected by the Germans or delivered by the Serbian collaborationist authorities and shot on the Hisar mountain, in the vicinity of Leskovac. The document was produced by the Serbian collaborationist authorities and is a part of a report on the mass shooting.
Testimonies about the mass shooting
- Архив Jугославије
- 582-20 to 60
- English
- 1941-1945
- About 40 items.
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimonies given to the SCICOS local commission in Leskovac by Roma women about the mass shooting of the males Roma on December 11, 1941. The testimonies are very brief but contain a lot of details about the victims, the perpetrators and the way the execution was carried out. Testimonies collected in 1945 by SCICOS local commission in Leskovac.
German and Serbian perpetratrors
- Архив Jугославије
- 582-48 to 59
- English
- 1945-1946
- 10 items.
- Updated 6 years ago
Prosecution of the German and Serbian criminals responsible for the massacre in Leskovac. The SCICOS issued the prosecution after collecting testimonies and documents (orders, reports etc.) produced by both German and Serbian collaborationist authorities in Leskovac.

Documents on the Genocide of the Roma in Serbia

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List of the victims

Testimonies about the mass shooting

German and Serbian perpetratrors