After the Slovak National Uprising broke out, several German army units entered Slovakia. Repressions against soldiers, resistance fighters and civilians were carried out by members of the Wehrmacht, the SS, Emergency Group H (Einsatzgruppe H), security police SIPO and the security service SD. SIPO and SD established their offices in Bratislava, Nitra, Trenčín, Ružomberok and Banská Bystrica. In other localities, so-called backup points (Stutzpunkt) were established.

The Emergency Group H had special privileges. For example, it had the right to send people to concentration camps without trial, or even to kill them on the spot.

After suppressing the Uprising, out of all the military and security groups, the Einsatzkommando 14 was the most active in terms of persecuting the Roma. It was based in Banská Bystica, but its backup points in Zvolen and Žilina. also carried out repression.
Other units also conducted terror against the Roma. In Svätý Kríž nad Hronom it was the members of SS from the combat group Schill. In Tisovec, there were members of the 18th Division SS Horst Wesel. In Slatina it was the brigade Dirlewanger and the 14th Division SS, the so-called Galician. Persecution was also carried out by groups drafted from among Carpathian Germans, the so-called Heimatschutz, by members of the Emergency units of the Hlinka Guards and by the gendarmerie.
Most repressive actions against the Roma took place between November 1944 and January 1945. Probably the first site of a Romani mass murder was in Kvetnica, in the Poprad district, where on September 15, 1944 seven people were killed.
However, the worst persecution took place in the so-called Uprising area. We can delineate this area geographically as one around Hnúšťa, Tisovec, Banská Bystrica and Horehronie. Other sites were around Zvolen, Detva, Lovinobaňa, Krupina, Svätý Kríž nad Hronom, and from Kremnica towards the Turiec region. Isolated repressions also took place in the Považie region, Záhorie and the district of Humenné.

The main reason for persecutions was the active role of the Roma in guerrilla groups active in the Uprising. However, most of the times, even the slightest suspicion was sufficient for persecution. Often, the Roma were executed right on the spot: such was the case in Čierny Balog, Svätý Kríž nad Hronom, or Motyčky settlement Stubňa. In several cases, the Roma were forcefully deported and killed at execution sites in Kremnička, Nemecká, Kováčová, and a Jewish cemetery in Zvolen. The largest numbers of victims came from Ilija, Banská Štiavnica, Čierny Balog, Tisovec, Lutila and Krupina.

1. September 15, 1945

Seven Roma were murdered in Kvetnica.

1. End of September 1944

Members of Einsatzkommando 27 at the borders of Spišská Teplica shot an unknown Rom.

1. October 6, 1944

Einsatzkomando 14 from Prievidza attacked Valaská Belá. They deported 13 Roma from the village and later killed them in the Škrípov Valley.

1. Beginning of October 1944

German police units and German militias captured several people in Sklenné on the suspicion that they were helping the partisans. Among those executed were also two local Roma men.

1. October 17, 1944

In Kríž nad Hronom, 23 Roma were burnt alive after being accused of helping the partisans.

1. Beginning of November 1944

More than 40 Roma were deported from the village of Lutila. A few days later, they were executed at the cemetery in Dolný Turček.

1. November 14,1944

Several dozens of Roma from Nerestince by Zvolen were captured in Čierny Balog in the Jegorovo Valley. All the men were shot and the women were burnt alive. Another group of Roma was murdered in a similar manner. A Romani settlement in Pustô was burnt down. In total, more than 60 Roma were murdered on this day.

1. November 17, 1944

Members of the Emergency Hlinka Guards captured 34 Romany men aging 14 – 60 in Krupina. They were killed at a mass execution site in Kremnička.

1. November 20, 1944

Roma in Tisovec were believed to be provocateurs pretending to be partisans and were later executed. The men were shot on the spot; the women and the children were executed in Kremnička. In total, more than 48 people were executed.

1. November 20, 1944

Member of Einsatzkommando 14 attacked Hriňová. After a house search, 2 Romani men were captured and later executed.

1. November 22, 1944

111 Romany men, women and children were dragged from Ilija and murderd at a mass execution site in Kremnička.

1. End of November 1944

German soldiers attacked Polomka. While chasing a partisan, they shot a 14 year old Romani boy and burnt down a local Romani settlement.

1. November 1944

In the Štubňa settlement in the village of Motyčka, Wehrmacht soldiers burnt about 20 Roma alive.

1. November 1944

In Sásová, 5 Romani men and 3 women were captured and later executed.

1. December 8, 1944

Due to cooperation with partisans, 15 men were taken from the settlement of Dúbrava. They were shot at a cemetery in Zvolen.

1. December 1944

After a train exploded near Detva, 4 Romani men were accused of sabotage and were later executed at a Jewish cemetery in Zvolen.

1. March 1945

Wehrmacht soldiers murdered 11 Roma in Motyčka, the settlement in Jergaly.

In the past years, the growing interest in topic of Roma persecutions, has brought more knowledge about this difficult period of the war. The list of localities where Roma were murdered has expanded and now also includes Lopeji (4 Roma killed), Ľubietová (1 Romani man killed), and Podlavice (3 Romani women captured and then executed in Kremnička). More Romany victims were killed in Jakub (3 victims), Skubín (4 murdered), Hájniky (2 Romani victims), Bartošová Lehote (3 executed Roma). Archival materials also reveal disappeared Roma in Dolné Hámre and Jastrabá. There is a still unknown number of Romani victims from Babiná, Ihráč and Pohorelá. About 11 Roma from Podkriváň – Dolná Bzová were executed on the cemetery in Zvolen.

It is likely that there are still more sites where repressions and executions of the Roma took place. Gradually, new sources that talk about the incredible suffering and pain inflicted on the Slovak Roma during World War II are coming to light.

After the war, memorial places were established to commemorate the victims of Nazi persecution. The Romani victims were often forgotten, and so far there are only four memorials devoted to them, commemorating atrocities in various communities. However, even these memorials do not mention that victims commemorated by them were of Romani origin.