On 8 August 1940, a disciplinary labour camp was opened in Lety u Písku. It was intended for healthy men over 18 years of age serving a court-imposed sentence.
In March 1942, with retroactive effect from January of the same year, the disciplinary labour camp was renamed a collection camp. Of approximately 700 “punitive inmates,” about 68 had the letter C as “Gypsy” recorded next to their names in the register.
On 10 July 1942, a Decree “on Combating the Gypsy Menace” was issued, which was an exact copy of the Reich model, and it launched an openly racial anti-Roma policy. It ordered local gendarmerie stations to carry out a census of “Gypsies and Gypsies of mixed-bloods,” whose aim was the precise registration of Roma and Sinti and mixed-blood Roma and Sinti in the Protectorate, regardless of their way of life or livelihood.
On 10 July 1942, a Decree “on Combating the Gypsy Menace” was issued, which was an exact copy of the Reich model, and it launched an openly racial anti-Roma policy. It ordered local gendarmerie stations to carry out a census of “Gypsies and Gypsies of mixed-bloods,” whose aim was the precise registration of Roma and Sinti and mixed-blood Roma and Sinti in the Protectorate, regardless of their way of life or livelihood.
The census was carried out on 2 August 1942. Approximately 2,500 Roma and Sinti were sent directly from the registration at the gendarmerie stations to the newly established concentration camps for Roma and Sinti in Lety u Písku and in Hodonín u Kunštátu.
