Documents on the Genocide of the Roma in Serbia

Identifier

File 273

Language of Description

English

Dates

1941 - 1945

Level of Description

File

Languages

Serbian

Scripts

Cyrillic
Latin

Source

EHRI

Extent and Medium

About 850 items, in Serbian language (Both cyrillic and latin characters).

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 Belgrade. The majority are testimonies of Roma women about the killing of the men and about their experience in the Sajmiste concentration camp, collected in the city of Belgrade and the surrounding villages (today part of the city) like Banjica, Mirijevo, Cukarica.

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. The testimonies refer to the period between October 1941 and March 1942, when the genocide took place.

Conditions Governing Access

Free access

Conditions Governing Reproduction

Reproduction allowed

Publication Note

Milovan Pisarri, The Suffering of the Roma in Serbia during the Holocaust, Forum for Applied History, Belgrade, 2014.

Archivist Note

Description by Milovan Pisarri.

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Testimony about the mass killing of the Roma in Belgrade
- Архив Jугославије
- 273-130
- English
- 1941-1945
- One document (three pages)
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Zivka Stanojevic Mandic about the collection, deportation and killing of the Roma from the "Jatagan mala" quarter in Belgrade. The document gives many details about the perpetrators and the victims, including how the action was carried out. It is one of the most detailed statements given to the Yugoslav authorities (the SCICOS) after the war about the Roma genocide in this part of Belgrade. The document is part of the SCICOS investigations on the crimes committed in Belgrade against the Roma. The SCICOS subcommission that carried out the investigation in the Jatagan mala quarte...
Testimony about the mass killing of the Roma in Belgrade
- Архив Jугославије
- 273-143
- English
- 1941-1945
- One document (three pages)
- Updated 6 years ago
Testimony of Natalija Savic about the collection, deportation and killing of the Roma from the "Marinkova bara" quarter in Belgrade. The document gives many details about the perpetrators and the victims, including how the action was carried out. It is one of the most detailed statements given to the Yugoslav authorities (the SCICOS) after the war about the Roma genocide in this part of Belgrade. The document is part of the SCICOS investigations on the crimes committed in Belgrade against the Roma. The SCICOS subcommission that carried out the investigation in the Marinkova bara quarter col...
Testimony on the Sajmiste concentration camp
- Архив Jугославије
- 273-181
- English
- 1941-1945
- One document (two pages)
- Updated 6 years ago
Statement of Grozdana Milosavljevic, who was interned in the Sajmiste concentration camp with other 600 Roma women in December 1941, about the collecting, deportation and the conditions in the camp. The document represents one of the rare testimonies about the Sajmiste camp. The document is part of the SCICOS investigations on the crimes committed in Belgrade against the Roma. In the file n. 273 there are other similar statements taken from the Roma women who were released from the camp, mostly in January and February 1942.
Report on the mass killing of the Roma in Belgrade
- Архив Jугославије
- 273-942
- English
- 1941-1945
- One document (five pages)
- Updated 6 years ago
The report contains information about the collecting, deportation and killing of the Roma from the village of Mirijevo, today part of the city of Belgrade. The action is described in detail, and there are the names of the perpetrators and the victims. The document is part of the SCICOS investigations on the crimes committed in Belgrade against the Roma. The SCICOS subcommission that carried out the investigation in Mirijevo collected about 35 testimonies.

Documents on the Genocide of the Roma in Serbia

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Testimony about the mass killing of the Roma in Belgrade

Testimony about the mass killing of the Roma in Belgrade

Testimony on the Sajmiste concentration camp

Report on the mass killing of the Roma in Belgrade