Deportation of Dutch Roma to Auschwitz – 19 May 1944 • 9-year-old Anna Maria (Settela) Steinbach was deported together with 244 other Roma from Westerbork to Auschwitz (1,2) • Source : Settela•Com • Collection Auschwitz Museum • URL https://fb.watch/Hgg5lusc-8/
The Auschwitz Museum acquired the short film ‘Settela’ from Settela•Com (1) in the Auschwitz Memorial Collection (3), and is succesfully screening the film each year since 2019 on the 19th May at the Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz facebook page .
Last year’s post of the film ‘Settela’ , 19th May 2025 at the Auschwitz Memorial / Muzeum Auschwitz facebook page, accumulated by now one million views, and over 3000 comments (Image 1MEMO_20260522).
The film was created in an attempt to keep the scene on screen longer on the one hand, and to preserve the natural and historical original on the other. Thus a compilation was created, showing the same scene twice. The film ends with the original 3 seconds clip selected from the Westerbork film footage shot by Jewish prisoner Rudolf Breslauer (4), and the film starts with that same clip , digitally slowed down 10× in post-production.
This film was created and first online in 2017 (5) , and published (antedated) as the first post (1) shortly after the start May 19, 2019, of the online journal Settela•Communications — short Settela•Com (6).
More on the Roma in Auschwitz , online at the Auschwitz Museum (7).
Notes
1- Settela | 20170721 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2017/07/21
2 – Genocide • 20260519 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 | URL https://settela.com/2026/05/19
3 – Settela • Auschwitz Memorial Collection, Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum • Facebook reels (retrieved May 22, 2026) URL https://www.facebook.com/reel/1461275455190451 •
4 – Settela Steinbach in Westerbork Film 🎦 2021 | 20220302 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 (accessed 2026 May 18) URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiLNDziwEtc&t=1012s
5 – Settela | 20170721 | michelvanderburg.com | URL https://michelvanderburg.com/2017/07/21/settela/ . Credit line changed later.
6 – Settela | Settela•Com | 20190519 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com | ISSN 2949-9313 |
7 – The Roma in Auschwitz. Auschwitz Museum. URL https://lekcja.auschwitz.org/en_roma_auschwitz
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