Holocaust Memorial for Roma and Sinti at Lety to be inaugurated on Tuesday

A Holocaust Memorial for Roma and Sinti will be inaugurated on Tuesday at the site of a former concentration camp in Lety, south Bohemia. Some 1, 300 Roma passed through the camp between 1942 and 1943 and more than 300 died there, mostly women and children. The memorial will open to the public on May 12.

The site originally served as a pig farm and it took close to three decades for post-communist governments to buy out the property and erect a dignified memorial in its place. The inauguration ceremony will be attended by Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky, cultural figures and members of the Roma minority.