Romany Holocaust centre set for site of former concentration camp

A Romany Holocaust documentation and educational centre is set be built on the site of a World War II concentration camp for Romanies at Hodonín in south Moravia, the minister for ethnic minorities and human rights, Džamila Stehlíková, said on Tuesday. Minister Stehlíková said the present owners of the site had agreed to sell it to the state. The centre is due to be built next year. It will be administered by the Museum of Romany Culture in Brno.

Around 90 percent of Bohemia and Moravia’s Romanies were killed during the war. Some of them died at the camp in Hodonín, while others perished at the Lety camp in Bohemia; hundreds of people from both were later murdered at Auschwitz.

Author: Ian Willoughby