"Lety u Písku, site of activism" is the name of a discussion being held today at 16:00 at the National Memorial on Prague's Vítkov Hill by the Centre for the Roma and Sinti in Prague, a specialized workplace of the Museum of Romani Culture. In 2017, the industrial pig farm that had been built over the location of the former WWII-era concentration camp for Roma and Sinti at Lety was purchased by the Czech state in order to build a new Lety u Písku Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Bohemia.
According to those convening the discussion, the journey toward that historical moment was not easy. The first documented efforts to turn the site into a place of reverence date to the 1960s.
How difficult was it for those voices and all the other subsequent voices to face the lack of interest or unwillingness of Czech society to deal with the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti? Does the future Lety memorial symbolize Czech society coming to terms with the Nazi persecution of the Roma and Sinti during the Second World War?
Link: https://romea.cz/en/czech-republic/lety-u-pisku-site-of-activism-debate-in-prague
