Yesterday the Museum of Romani Culture announced the architectural and landscaping competition to design the Memorial to the Holocaust of the Roma at Lety in the Písek district, where a concentration camp for Romani people was in operation during the Second World War.
The winner of the competition should be known in May of next year, director Jana Horváthová told journalists.
The process of demolishing the buildings that housed the now-defunct pig farm that was built on top of the former concentration camp in the 1970s will depend on the competition results. The museum wants to open the memorial in 2023.
The commission of the competition was designed in collaboration with experts from the fields of history, architecture, museum studies and Romani studies, as well as with eyewitnesses to the running of the concentration camp, survivors of the concentration camp and relatives of the victims.
