Hodonín u Kunštátu

Hodonín u Kunštá­tu, in the tes­ti­monies as Hodonínek – a vil­lage in Moravia in the dis­trict of Blan­sko, where a so-called Gyp­sy camp (Zige­uner­lager II) was estab­lished on 2 August 1942 with a capac­i­ty of 800 per­sons, but where approx­i­mate­ly 1 400 Romani men, women and chil­dren, most­ly from Moravia, were interned. Most of them were deport­ed to the Auschwitz II-Birke­nau exter­mi­na­tion camp. As a result of the slave labour and inhu­man liv­ing con­di­tions, approx­i­mate­ly 200 peo­ple per­ished in the Hodonín camp and were buried in near­by Čer­novice and in the for­est near the camp at a place lat­er called Žalov; only few of the internees were released after the camp was closed in 1943.