Commemorative act in memory of the victims of the Roma and Jewish victims of Nazism in Lety u Písku
When: 12 May 2024 at 12 p.m.
Where: Cultural Monument Lety – near the emergency burial site of a former concentration camp intended mainly for Roma and Sinti
In May, the traditional commemoration of the victims of the Protectorate's so-called Gypsy camp in Lety u Písku will take place. The gathering will take place on 12 May at 12 noon.
The site of the camp in Lety u Písku is connected with a long and turbulent past. It is an authentic place where the Protectorate's so-called gypsy camp operated between 1942 and 1943. It was one of two places (the other was in Hodonín near Kunštát) where entire families of Moravian and Czech Roma and Sinti were forcibly concentrated before being transported to the concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz II-Birkenau. The camp buildings themselves were razed to the ground and burned after the last mass transport in 1943. During its existence (August 1942-August 1943), approximately 1,300 men, women and children passed through the camp. It is certain that a total of 325 people died in Lety, most of the victims were children.
The commemorative gathering is being organised by the Museum of Romani Culture together with the Committee for the Compensation of the Romani Holocaust in the Czech Republic on the grounds of the Lety Cultural Monument, which is located in the immediate vicinity of the emergency burial site of the concentration camp victims.
Programme:
- 12.00 opening of the commemorative assembly
- 12.15 honouring the memory of the victims with floral gifts
- 13.00 words of the priest
- 13.45 speeches, music
- 14.45 closing remarks
- 15.00 tour of the new site of the Holocaust Memorial to the Roma and Sinti in Bohemia
- 15.45 departure to the parish cemetery in Mirovice, where the commemorative act will end with the laying of floral offerings at the statue of the Roma Mother
On this day, the trial operation of the Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Bohemia begins. We look forward to your visit.
