Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day: Michaela Küchler on the story of Lety concentration camp in Bohemia

02/08/2025 29 min
Roma Holocaust Remembrance Day: Michaela Küchler on the story of Lety concentration camp in Bohemia

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The International Day of Remembrance for the Roma and Sinti Holocaust is marked on 2 August — the date when over 4,000 Roma were murdered at Auschwitz-Birkenau in 1944. In this weekend edition of Czechia in 30 Minutes, we speak to Michaela Küchler, Secretary General of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, about her family’s Czech roots, her mission to preserve the memory of the Roma genocide, and the tragic history of the Lety camp.

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