Lety u Písku

Lety u Písku — a vil­lage in the dis­trict of Písek, where the so-called Gyp­sy camp (Zige­uner­lager I) was estab­lished on 2 August 1942. In addi­tion to Roma and Sin­ti, most­ly from Bohemia, sev­er­al dozen peo­ple who were not Roma but were con­sid­ered ​“gyp­sies” by the state admin­is­tra­tion were interned there. Of the approx­i­mate­ly 1,300 internees, approx­i­mate­ly 320 peo­ple, most­ly chil­dren, did not sur­vive the ter­ri­ble con­di­tions of the camp. They were first buried in the ceme­tery in neigh­bour­ing Mirovice, and lat­er in a makeshift bur­ial in the woods near the camp. Most of the pris­on­ers were deport­ed in May 1943 to the Auschwitz II-Birke­nau exter­mi­na­tion camp, only some of the internees were released after the camp was closed in 1943.