Holocaust Memorial for Roma and Sinti opens in Lety

A Holocaust Memorial for Roma and Sinti opened on Tuesday at the site of a former concentration camp in Lety, south Bohemia. Over 1,300 Roma passed through the camp between 1942 and 1943 and more than 300 died there, mostly women and children. Over 500 inmates were sent to extermination camps.

The memorial includes a place of remembrance and a visitor centre with a permanent exhibition that presents testimonies of witnesses in audiovisual form.

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.