Várpalota
Historical background Várpalota – a city in western Hungary, in the Veszprém county. In 1945, a group of over one…
Budapest
Historical background In the 1930s, a solution to the “Gypsy issue” was proposed in Hungary for the first time. It…
Komárno
Historical background The intensification of actions against the Roma in Hungary occurred at the beginning of 1944, especially after the…
Murska Sobota
Description of commemoration The memorial plaque is located in an invisible place, on the wall of the building of the…
Žiar nad Hronom
(known during WWII as Kríž nad Hronom) Historical background On 17.10.1944, after accusing the Šarkőzy family of helping partisans, the…
Zvolen
Historical background Between March 29 and April 1, 1945, after the front of war passed through Zvolen, six mass graves…
Vráble
Historical background Thirty Roma from Vráble and the surrounding area were deported to Dachau. Later the women were transported to…
Tisovec (district Rimavská Sobota)
Historical background On November 20, 1944 Gypsies were deceived by the provocateurs claiming to be partisans. As a result, 78…
Slatina (district Levice)
Historical background At the end of 1944, the fighting for the village of Slatina, which lay on the demarcation line,…
Nemecká
Historical background In Nemecka, there was a forced labour camp for calcination of limestone. Between 4 and 11 January 1945,…
Lutila (district Žiar nad Hronom)
Historical background 46 Gypsies from Lutila, falsely accused of cooperating with partisans, were shot in Dolny Turček on November…