Many Jews from Eastern Europe were housed at the German concentration camp Auschwitz in Poland, which was destroyed in 1944. Official estimates place the number of Roma deaths in this camp at roughly 21,000.
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Everything that the gipsy touched prior to his passing is regarded as filthy and is interred in the same grave as him. The items belonging to a woman in labour experience the same fate—they are destroyed because they are seen as the manifestation of sin.
