Timeline

Lety u Písku – paměť místa, místo paměti

1920

1930

1940

1950

1960

1970

1980

1990

2000

2010

2020

1920

14. 7. 1927

Czechoslovak law “on wandering gypsies”

15. 2. 1921

First census in Czechoslovakia

1930

květen 1936

Establishment of the so-called Gypsy camp in Berlin-Marzahn in Nazi Germany

15. 9. 1935

Adoption of the so-called Nuremberg Race Laws in Nazi Germany

1940

7. 9. 1948

Sentence of Josef Janovský, former commander of the so-called gypsy camp in Lety

18.–23. 8. 1947

The first post-war census of “gypsies” in Czechoslovakia

1950

konec 50. let

Erection of the cross at the emergency burial site of the Letsko camp

1960

60. léta

Richter and Šmíd have a memorial plaque placed at the cemetery in Mirovice

1960

Documentary Don’t Forget This Little Girl

1970

70. léta 20. století

Construction of a large-scale pig farm in Lety u Písku

1990

23. 4. 1998

Declaring the emergency burial site of the victims of the so-called gypsy camp in Lety a cultural monument

25. 2. 1998

Establishment of the Committee for the Compensation of the Roma Holocaust in the Czech Republic

13. 5. 1995

Unveiling of the memorial at the site of the emergency graves of the victims of the Letsko camp

2000

4. 5. 2009

The cultural monument in Lety u Písku is managed by the Lidice Memorial

21. 1. 2006

The Nationalist Workers’ Party places its own “monument” in Lety.

2010

4. 7. 2017

Start of archaeological research in Lety u Písku

13.–16. 5. 2014

The first blockade of the pig farm in Lety organized by the Konexe movement

2020

22. 7. 2022

Start of the demolition of the pig farm in Lety u Písku

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