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1938
30 September 1938Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy, Great Britain and France accept the ‘Munich Agreement’, which means the loss of the Czechoslovak borderland (the so-called Sudetenland) and the demise of the First Czechoslovak Republic.
1939
15 March 1939German troops occupy the remaining territory of the Czech part of Czechoslovakia, i.e. the territory of Bohemia, Moravia and Silesia, which Germany and Poland have not occupied and annexed until then. The day after that, the newly occupied territories are established as ‘Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia’.
30 November 1939The Minister of the Interior of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech Lands) orders that by 1 January 1940 all ‘itinerant Gypsies’ have to settle down in their home towns or wherever they are staying on that date.
1942
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.
1943
6 March 1943The first mass transport from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech Lands) to Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp on the basis of the ‘Auschwitz’ decree, numbering approx. 1,040 Roma men, women, and children, leaves the city of Brno. They are registered in the camp on 7 and 8 March.
22 August 1943About 770 men, women and children, mainly prisoners of the ‘Zigeunerlager’ Hodonin near Kunstadt, are registered in Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp. They were deported in the fifth mass transport from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (German-occupied Czech lands) on the basis of the ‘Auschwitz decree’.
2000
30 May 2000On the initiative of historian Ctibor Nečas, a commemorative plaque is placed on one of the original buildings of the former assembly point for deported Roma on Masná Street in Brno (Czech Republic).
2014
17 September 2014A memorial to the Romani and Jewish victims from Brno, who were deported and murdered between 1939 and 1945, is unveiled in Brno (Czech Republic).
2017
30 September 2014In the Czech Republic, two Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones) are placed on the site of the former Romani ‘colony’ in Černovice, Brno to commemorate the couple Jan and Amália Daniel, murdered in Auschwitz-Birkenau. These are thought to be the first stumbling stones for the victims of the Nazi genocide of the Roma in Central and Eastern Europe.
2020
7 March 2020In the Czech Republic, two Stolpersteine (Stumbling Stones) are laid in the Žebětín district in Brno with the names of Jana Danielová and her daughter Anastázie Danielová, two local Romani residents who perished in Auschwitz-Birkenau.
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