Memorial for Roma Holocaust victims to be built in Lety

The Czech government on Monday approved a plan to build a memorial for Romany Holocaust victims on the site of a former wartime internment camp for Romanies in Lety, southern Bohemia. The Lety memorial would be administered by the Memorial of Lidice, a village razed to the ground by the Nazis in 1942. The Lety site has been a painful issue for many years since the communists built a pig farm on the site of the former internment camp and so far all efforts to remove it have failed. An international Romany Holocaust educational and information centre is planned in Hodonín u Kunštátu, south Moravia, the site of another WWII internment camp for Romanies.