1942/12/02 – Lety (Protektorat, Deportation Auschwitz I)

2 December 1942

The first transport of Sinti and Roma from the ‘Zigeunerlager’ in Lety near Pisek, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech lands), to Auschwitz I concentration camp is carried out on the basis of the order for ‘preventive crime control’. The transport consists of 94 mainly elderly persons (78 women and 16 men).

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Janovský, Josef

Lety near Pisek

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