Events 2009
U.S. Embassy Paid Tribute to Roma Holocaust Victims at Lety
The annual commemorative ceremony at the burial site of the former concentration camp for Roma in Lety by Pisek
May 15, 2009
On May 13, Political Councilor Charles O. Blaha attended the annual commemorative ceremony at the burial site of the former concentration camp for Roma in Lety by Pisek.
This year’s event attracted a much larger number of citizens than ever before. There were some 250 people, including numerous Roma representatives, 160 high school students from Prague, Brno, and Jihlava, representatives of diplomatic missions of Belgium, Canada, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Slovakia, and The Netherlands, as well as Czech government and parliamentary representatives, including Human Rights Minister Michael Kocab and former Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg.
May 13 was the day when a small memorial to Roma holocaust victims was unveiled, at the site in 1995 under the initiative and auspices of former president Vaclav Havel.
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