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PHOTO GALLERY: Commemorative ceremony at Lety u Písku, Czech Republic 2022

9.5.2022 11:23  full story

Renata Berkyová at Lety u Písku: How is the current Romani society living in the Czech Republic to comprehend the open racism toward Romani refugees from Ukraine?

9.5.2022 10:32  full story

President of Czech Senate says Lety commemorations are a call for people to treat minorities fairly

9.5.2022 9:11  full story

videoLIVE BROADCAST TODAY: Commemorative ceremony at the memorial to the Holocaust and its Romani victims in Hodonín u Kunštátu, Czech Republic

18.8.2021 6:48  full story

Traditional commemorative ceremony dedicated to the Romani victims of Nazism will be held on Sunday, 1 August at Lety u Písku, Czech Republic

14.7.2021 11:32  full story

Czech library to exhibit all designs submitted for the future Lety u Písku Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti

17.9.2020 9:20  full story

German Sinti and Roma oppose Berlin tunnel construction that will disturb memorial to Sinti and Romani victims of the Nazi regime

23.8.2020 10:35  full story

Commemorative ceremony at Hodonín memorial in Czech Republic 20 August honors Romani and Sinti victims of the Holocaust

14.8.2020 7:28  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

Closed commemoration of the Roma victims of the Holocaust at Lety u Písku cultural heritage site

13.5.2020 11:26  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

Czech descendants of WWII resistance fighters demand senator resign over speech at Holocaust memorial

23.5.2019 8:07  full story

Czech Senator compares environmental, gender equality, multiculturalism advocacy to racism and totalitarianism at Holocaust site

19.5.2019 19:52  full story

videoVIDEO: Commemorative ceremony at the former Lety concentration camp attended by 200 people

13.5.2019 8:08  full story

German investors into sausage museum want to move it to a former concentration camp site

4.2.2019 14:27  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

Commentary: Terezin commemoration this year was a travesty, civil society group calls for director's dismissal

26.5.2018 7:56 A delegation from the controversial "Freedom and Direct Democracy" (SPD) movement; the controversial chair of the Czech Freedom Fighters' Union, Jaroslav Vodička, again invited to speak; the homophobic Czech MP Jaroslav Foldyna seated on the main tribunal; no Jewish rabbis in attendance; no Romani flag flying - this was what the Terezín Commemoration looked like on Sunday. The Konexe organization considers this year's ceremony to have been a desecration of the site and will be demanding the dismissal of the director of the Terezín Memorial.  full story

Czech Constitutional Court: Complaint against decision to buy pig farm on Romani genocide site is inadmissable

5.5.2018 18:24 The Czech Constitutional Court has declared inadmissible a complaint filed with it against the decision by the Government to approve the purchase of the pig farm in Lety located on the site of a former concentration camp for Romani people. That means the complaint did not meet the requirements, neither in terms of content nor in terms of form, for the court to review it.
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Czech memorial to Romani genocide apparently must be done in three years

28.4.2018 17:51 On Wednesday 18 April at Gallery VI PER in Prague a discussion was held about the process through which the new Lety u Písku memorial is to be created, its possible forms, and the role it should serve. The public debate about these various aspects of memorial creation was enriched by the opinions of the artist Pavel Sterec from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Brno Technical University, the art critic and historian Anežka Bartlová from the College of Arts, Architecture and Design (UMPRUM), and the editor and historian Čeněk Pýcha from the Education Department of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes (ÚSTR).
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Norway confirms it will give EUR 1 million to create memorial to Romani genocide at Lety

17.4.2018 10:58 Norwegian Ambasador Siri Ellen Sletner confirmed yesterday at Lety u Písku that Norway wants to contribute one million euro to building a memorial to the Holocaust and its Romani victims at the site of a former concentration camp which until recently was being used for a pig farm. The Museum of Romani Culture, which is managing the remembrance site, has now opened an information center at the Lety municipality about the genocide of Romani people in Bohemia.

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