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Slovak Prime Minister says the Holocaust and its Romani victims must be remembered so that its "bloody history" will never be repeated

3.8.2020 14:07  full story

William Bila: Berlin's Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism must not be relocated, German railroad cannot be allowed to disrupt it

30.7.2020 9:22  full story

Austrian capital to build memorial to the homosexual victims of Nazism

10.7.2020 9:32  full story

videoWinning design for new memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in the Czech Republic features enormous circle at the site of the former concentration camp

10.6.2020 5:52  full story

Here is the winning design for the new memorial to Holocaust victims of Roma and Sinti origin at the former concentration camp in Lety u Písku, Czech Republic

9.6.2020 13:33  full story

videoLIVE BROADCAST AT 11 AM: Winning design for future memorial at former concentration camp for Roma to be unveiled in Prague

9.6.2020 5:58  full story

International competition for new memorial to the Holocaust and its Romani and Sinti victims in Czech Republic has seven finalists

21.2.2020 17:30  full story

Czech state's demolition of industrial pig farm on former concentration camp site for Roma to begin in June

6.2.2020 18:48  full story

Czech Museum of Romani Culture's international competition for new memorial at former concentration camp receives 41 designs, exceeding organizers' expectations

24.1.2020 12:21  full story

Czech archaeological survey confirms human remains are located in the vicinity of current memorial to WWII-era concentration camp for Roma

6.9.2019 17:52  full story

Memorial to Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti opens in Hodonín u Kunštátu, Czech Republic

27.8.2019 7:10  full story

Czech design competition for memorial to Holocaust victims of Roma/Sinti origin opens in September, winner to be announced in the spring

21.7.2019 12:41  full story

EEA and Norway Grants will support building of memorial to Romani victims of the Holocaust at former concentration camp site

1.6.2019 10:09  full story

Museum of Romani Culture responds to Czech MP's critique of the new memorial to the Romani genocide at Lety

26.1.2019 20:29  full story

Demolition of pig farm on Romani genocide site in Czech Republic to take place in 2019, new memorial to open in 2023

8.12.2018 8:04  full story

Holocaust memorial in Czech town will bloom with yellow crocuses in the spring

17.10.2018 10:44 Almost 4 000 yellow crocuses will bloom in the spring at the memorial to the Holocaust on Vodní Street in Valašské Meziříčí (Vsetín district). An important Jewish community once resided there prior to the Second World War.  full story

Czech Police apprehend youth who desecrated Romani genocide memorial with pig's head

8.5.2018 6:50 Detectives in Písek have managed to solve a case from February involving somebody placing a pig's head at the memorial to the Holocaust and its Romani victims in the community of Lety u Písku. Detectives initially worked with a minimum of information, thoroughly investigating each clue and minor detail until they accessed more specific information for assessment.  full story

Demolition of pig farm on Romani genocide site in Czech Republic could provide jobs for long-term unemployed

28.4.2018 9:31 On Wednesday, 25 April yet another in the series of discussions on the future of the former camp at Lety u Písku that has been organized by the Museum of Romani Culture and the ROMEA organization was held. This time the discussion happened directly in the community of Lety u Písku in the local authority's auditorium and, as moderator Alica Sigmund Heráková said, it came "not just to the place about which there is discussion, but also to the local reality, the local residents, and the region where the changes related to building the memorial will have the most impact."  full story

Czech Republic will not finance new memorial at Romani genocide site, funds will come from Norway

26.4.2018 11:58 The new memorial to the Holocaust and its Romani victims at the site of the former concentration camp for Romani people in Lety u Písku will not be paid for by the Czech state. At a public meeting in Lety yesterday held by the Museum of Romani Culture and the ROMEA organization, Czech Deputy Culture Minister René Schreier delivered that message.  full story

Czech MP Karel Schwarzenberg will attend public discussion of the future memorial at Romani genocide site in Lety

22.4.2018 10:31 On Wednesday, 25 April 2018 at 17:00 yet another discussion will take place in the series being organized by the Museum of Romani Culture together with the ROMEA public benefit corporation on the future possible form of the memorial to the Holocaust and its Romani victims at Lety u Písku. The discussion will take place in the cultural hall of the Lety u Písku Municipal Authority.  full story