page_title: Berlin-Marzahn concentration camp
hierarchical_section_title: Berlin-Marzahn concentration camp
caption_attribution_description: English: Memorial stone for the Sinti and Roma who have been gathered here in the Third Reich during the Olympic Games in 1936, before later deportation to the extermination camps. Taken during a commemoration ceremony in 2003. The stone has been carved by sculptor Jürgen Rave. Deutsch: Gedenkstein für die Sinti und Roma die hier im Dritten Reich während der Olympischen Spiele 1936 zusammengepfercht wurden, bevor sie später in die Vernichtungslager deportiert wurden. Aufgenommen während einer Gedenkverstanstaltung im Jahr 2003. Der Stein wurde vom Bildhauer Jürgen Rave geschaffen.
context_page_description: Berlin-Marzahn Rastplatz was a camp set up for Romani people in the Berlin suburb of Marzahn by Nazi authorities.
  The Nazis used the Nuremberg Laws related to social misfits, vagabonds, and criminals as a means to intimidate and arrest Romani and Sinti Gypsies in Germany. At 4 a.m. on 16 July 1936, prior to the opening of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, police arrested 600 Gypsies in Greater Berlin and forcibly relocated them via 130 caravans to Marzahn, an open field in eastern Berlin sandwiched between a cemetery and a sewage dump.
  Upon arrival the men and women were separated and taken for medical inspection. From there, prisoners were either deemed fit to work or unfit. Those that were deemed unfit were sent to execution. Later, the prison would be surrounded by barbed wire and prisoners were subject to forced labour in armament plants. The camp also led to involuntary sterilization and loss of citizenship to the Gypsy prisoners as they were classified as aliens.
  Eventually, the men from Marzahn would be sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp, and women and children were sent to Auschwitz.
context_section_description: Berlin-Marzahn Rastplatz was a camp set up for Romani people in the Berlin suburb of Marzahn by Nazi authorities.
  The Nazis used the Nuremberg Laws related to social misfits, vagabonds, and criminals as a means to intimidate and arrest Romani and Sinti Gypsies in Germany. At 4 a.m. on 16 July 1936, prior to the opening of the 1936 Berlin Olympics, police arrested 600 Gypsies in Greater Berlin and forcibly relocated them via 130 caravans to Marzahn, an open field in eastern Berlin sandwiched between a cemetery and a sewage dump.
  Upon arrival the men and women were separated and taken for medical inspection. From there, prisoners were either deemed fit to work or unfit. Those that were deemed unfit were sent to execution.  Later, the prison would be surrounded by barbed wire and prisoners were subject to forced labour in armament plants. The camp also led to involuntary sterilization and loss of citizenship to the Gypsy prisoners as they were classified as aliens (Non-Aryans).
  Eventually, the men from Marzahn would be sent to Sachsenhausen concentration camp (in 1938), and women and children were sent to Auschwitz (in 1943).
caption: Memorial stone on the nearby cemetery, commemorating the camp.
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