Mirovice

Historical background

See: Lety – exhibition

Description of commemoration

The memorial devoted to the Roma is located just next to Red Army soldiers monument from 1945.

There are seven plaques embedded in the cemetery wall. Six of them contain 154 names of children who died in the Lety camp. The oldest of the children was 9 years old, while most of them were under one year old. In front of the plaques there are three stone statues which depict crying women. Pictures from the unveiling of the memorial also show that the statues of the women weer accompanied by a broken Gypsy wheel, but in 2016 the wheel was no longer near the memorial.

Unmarked graves are the resting place of 30 adult Gypsies who died in the Lety camp.

Inscriptions

“Zde jsou pochovány romské děti, / ktere zachynuly v romském táboře / Lety u Písku / 1942-1943 // Hroby upravili v roce 2000 Romové s podporou vlády ČR”

(Here are buried the Roma children, / who died in the camp for the Roma / Lety u Písku / 1942-1943 // Their graves were renovated in 2000 by the Roma with the assistance of the Czech government.)

On the left and right of the plaque with the above inscription, three plaques were placed in the wall of the cemetery with a total of 154 names of children.

Date of the unveiling

May 13, 2007

Author

Čeněk Růžička, Michal Moravec

Initiator

Čeněk Růžička

Address

Cemetery: Hřbitovní Street, 398 06 Mirovice, the Czech Republic

Location

49°31’06.8″N 14°02’20.1″E

Materials

Romano hangos, ročník 9, číslo 7, http://www.romanohangos.cekit.cz/clanek.php?id_clanek=61

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