Poland: excerpts from Polnische zigeuner: historische und sittenskizzen

Identifier

irn502956

Language of Description

English

Alt. Identifiers

1987.007.3
RG-07.003.01

Level of Description

Item

Source

EHRI Partner

Web Source

https://collections.ushmm.org/search/catalog/irn502956

Extent and Medium

folder

Archival History

Anton Fojn

Acquisition

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

Scope and Content

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.

People

Ficowski, Jerzy.
Mengele, Josef, 1911-

Corporate Bodies

Subjects

Racism.
Statistics.
Children, Romani.
Jewish ghettos--Poland--Warsaw.
Romanies--France.
Romanies--Germany.
Transports.
Typhus fever.
Concentration camps.
Romanies--Poland.
Romani Genocide, 1939-1945.
Jewish ghettos--Poland--Łódź.
Human experimentation in medicine.
Physicians.

Genre

Document

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