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1942

15 July 1942At the German Criminal Police Headquarters [Kriminalzentrale] in Prague (Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, German-occupied Czech Lands), August Lyss issues orders on the organisation of the ‘Zigeunerlager’ and the treatment of their inmates.

1 – 3 August 1942In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech Lands), people defined as ‘Gypsies’ are registered.

2 August 1942In the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech Lands), the ‘Zigeunerlager’ Lety near Pisek and Hodonin near Kunstadt start to operate. During the first days more than a thousand people are deported to each camp.

27 August 1942Camp commander Josef Janovský issues his personal set of rules for the ‘Zigeunerlager’ Lety near Pisek in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech Lands).

30 September 1942An official set of camp rules for the Lety and Hodonin ‘Zigeunerlager’ (Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, German-occupied Czech Lands) is issued by the occupation authorities.

2 December 194278 women and 16 men labelled as ‘asocials’ are deported from Lety detention camp (Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, German-occupied Czech Lands) to Auschwitz I concentration camp (German-annexed Poland).

16 December 1942‘Auschwitz Decree’: Heinrich Himmler, head of the Schutzstaffel (‘Reichsführer-SS’), orders the deportation of Sinti and Roma from the German Reich to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp.

31 December 1942The whole ‚Zigeunerlager‘ Lety near Pisek in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech Lands) is put under quarantine due to a typhoidus and typhus epidemic.

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