Archaeology of Zigeunerlager: Results of the 2018–2019 investigation at the Roma detention camp in Lety | Amsterdam University Press Journals Online
2004
Volume 3, Issue 1
  • E-ISSN: 2666-5050

Abstract

Abstract 

Archaeological research in Let carried out within the framework of the Accessing Campscapes project has revealed the location, and preserved material traces, of the Roma detention camp from the period of the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, the area of which was partly destroyed and superseded by the industrial pig farm in the 1970s. The investigations have not only produced tangible evidence regarding the camp operation, structure, buildings and living conditions of the inmates but have also provided a means for the Roma to reclaim their neglected heritage. The planned Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma and Sinti in Bohemia will take account of the results of the archaeological project and transform the site into a Romani memorialscape.

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