No entry into the country
In 1934 a group of 68 Norwegian gypsies attempted to travel from Germany to Norway, their home country. They were stopped on the Danish border. The Norwegian authorities refused to let them enter Norway. Their citizenship had been declared invalid in the 1920s on the basis of the Aliens Act subsection relating to gypsies. This was to have fatal consequences for Norwegian gypsies; 56 men, women and children were killed in concentration camps. The picture depicts some of the Norwegian gypsy group just before they were deported back to Germany from Denmark.
Photo: Klok Foto, Copenhagen. From the book En for hverandre. sigøynerneMilos Karoli og Frans Josef forteller, Gyldendal, 1978.
In 1934 a group of 68 Norwegian gypsies attempted to travel from Germany to Norway, their home country. They were stopped on the Danish border. The Norwegian authorities refused to let them enter Norway. Their citizenship had been declared invalid in the 1920s on the basis of the Aliens Act subsection relating to gypsies. This was to have fatal consequences for Norwegian gypsies; 56 men, women and children were killed in concentration camps. The picture depicts some of the Norwegian gypsy group just before they were deported back to Germany from Denmark.
Photo: Klok Foto, Copenhagen. From the book En for hverandre. sigøynerneMilos Karoli og Frans Josef forteller, Gyldendal, 1978.