In August 1942, trains bringing future prisoners of the concentration camp for Roma and Sinti in Lety u Písku arrived in Mirovice. Trains from Bohemia brought hundreds of children, women, and men, who were forced to walk from the Mirovice railway station all the way to Lety u Písku.
From the same station, transports were then dispatched to the concentration and extermination camp Auschwitz II–Birkenau in December 1942 and in May 1943. Through these transports, more than 500 persons were taken to almost certain death. Those prisoners who were released in May 1943 as so-called non-Roma returned home by train from the Mirovice railway station in a destitute state, without property, often without relatives.
Many of them still awaited the fate of transports. “Our belongings which we had brought to Lety were all burned and we went home only in what we were wearing. The people in the village of Lety and at the station in Mirovice gave us food, even money, and some with tears in their eyes said: ‘So many were brought there, and only a few of you are going home. What did they do with the others? We know that many died there, but we also saw those they took away. Where?’ When we told them where, they were devastated.” Božena Pflegerová, survivor of the Lety camp.
