photo: Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz
The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz
A guidebook for visitors
The Association of Roma People in Poland has published the first guidebook for those visiting the Memorial and Museum Auschwitz-Birkenau, devoted to the Roma prisoners of KL Auschwitz. The guidebook, titled “The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz,” presents a historical outline of the genesis and course of the Nazi persecution of Roma as well as a richly illustrated by the photographic material description of the sites mostly related to the fate of the Roma prisoners deported to KL Auschwitz. The guidebook refers to the newest historical findings about the destruction of Roma in the camp and presents the life and death of the Roma from the perspective of prisoners and with reference to their testimonies.
The guidebook can be purchased in the bookstores of the Museum, the Association of Roma People in Poland, 5 Berka Joselewicz Str., 32-600 Oswiecim and order at the address: stowarzyszenie@romowie.net.
Sìnte aj Rroma and-o Auschwitz
![Memoria 10/July 2018](https://www.roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Kachel_Cover.jpg)
The last stage of the functioning of the ‘Zigeunerlager’ in the Birkenau Camp
Recent research by historians of the Auschwitz Museum
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The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz
A guidebook for visitors
![Photo of KL Auschwitz taken by Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz](https://www.roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IMG_3242-scaled.jpg)
The genesis and course of the Nazi persecution of Roma and Sinti
Extract from “The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz: A guidebook for visitors”
![Sign of Block 11; photo taken by Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz.](https://www.roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4U2A1372-scaled.jpg)
Block 11
Extract from “The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz: A guidebook for visitors”
![Photo of flower in front of barbed wire fence taken in Auschwitz-Birkenau by Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz.](https://www.roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4U2A7319-scaled.jpg)
Escapes
Extract from “The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz: A guidebook for visitors”
![Photo of snow-covered rails of Auschwitz-Birkenau taken by Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz.](https://www.roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/IMG_2715o-scaled.jpg)
“Zigeunerfamilienlager” (“Gypsy family camp”)
Extract from “The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz: A guidebook for visitors”
![The barracks of quarantine in KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau; photo taken by Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz.](https://www.roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4U2A9423-scaled.jpg)
Arrival in the “Zigeunerfamilienlager”
Extract from “The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz: A guidebook for visitors”
![Photo of barracks taken by Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz.](https://www.roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4U2A9543-scaled.jpg)
The life of Prisoners
Extract from “The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz: A guidebook for visitors”
![Photo of KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau taken by Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz.](https://www.roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4U2A6018-scaled.jpg)
Children
Extract from “The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz: A guidebook for visitors”
![Photo of KL Auschwitz II-Birkenau taken by Jaroslaw Praszkiewicz.](https://www.roma-sinti-holocaust-memorial-day.eu/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/4U2A4393-scaled.jpg)
Dr. Mengele and experiments on prisoners
Extract from “The Destruction of European Roma in KL Auschwitz: A guidebook for visitors”