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Monument to the Romani Victims, Černovice

Basic Information

Location
Česko > Jihomoravský kraj > okres Blansko > Černovice > Černovice u Kunštátu
Location Details: Cemetery

Coordinates
49.485141, 16.424813

Type
Wall plaque, exterior, Holocaust monument / memorial, Relief sculpture, representational, Relief sculpture, with symbols, Memorial cemetery fence

Location
Cemetery, Mass grave

Artist / Maker / Company
Božena Přikrylová (Sculpture)

Textual Content
Dedication

Languages
Czech, Romani

Whom the Monument Commemorates
Roma victims, Victims of concentration camps, Victims of World War II

The victims of the concentration camp for Roma people in Hodonín u Kunštátu, who are buried at the site

Iconographical Subject
Cross, Human figure

Material
Metal

Commissioned By
Museum of Romani Culture

Dates

1998 Unveiling

Description

The metal memorial plaque is located on the wall at the far left of the parish cemetery. Its upper part is the base for a sculpture made of the same material, which depicts Jesus Christ on the cross. Its lower half contains a dedication in Romani and Czech in raised capital letters.

Inscription

ADAJ HIN PARUNDE ROMA DO MULE
ANDRO PROTEKTORATNO ROMANO
TABORIS HODONÍN U KUNŠTÁTU
ZDE LEŽÍ OBĚTI PROTEKTORÁTNÍHO
CIKÁNSKÉHO TÁBORA V HODONÍNĚ
U KUNŠTÁTU 1942–1943

History

Between 1942 and 1943, a concentration camp for Romani people was located near the village of Hodonín u Kunštátu. They were rounded up there and put to hard labour and then transported to the concentration and extermination camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau.
The bodies of the dead prisoners were taken from the camp by horse-drawn cart to Černovice and buried there in simple wooden coffins. Approximately 73 concentration camp inmates, mostly children, are buried at this site. The local parish priest, A. Solař, refused to continue burying the dead in the cemetery in Černovice when the number of deaths increased at the end of 1942, due to the alleged lack of space. He also refused a proposal to consecrate the ground just outside the cemetery wall, where the victims could be buried. Therefore, from 7 January 1943, a burial ground was established near the camp. Most of the victims of the epidemic of typhus and typhoid fever that broke out in the camp in December 1942, for which the camp was quarantined off from 17 February 1943, were also buried there.
In 1998, a memorial plaque was placed in Černovice under the care of the Museum of Romani Culture. The plaque was created by the blind Romani artist Božena Přikrylová (*1978), who made the sculpture in cooperation with Štěpán Axman's studio of sculpture-by-touch.

Sources

Archives

Moravian Provincial Archive, coll. Brno Provincial Office.
Moravian Provincial Archive, coll. Files and plans of state and public buildings in the Moravian-Silesian country.
Museum of Romani Culture, coll. Photo documentation.
Museum of Romani Culture, coll. Written material collection.
National Archives, coll. General Commander of the non-uniformed Protectorate Police.
State Regional Archives in Prague, coll. MLS Prague.
State District Archives Zlín, coll. Archive of the municipality of Luhačovice, box 74.

Literature

Jana Horváthová (ed.), ... to jsou těžké vzpomínky. Vol. I., Brno 2021.
Jana Horváthová (ed.), Le romengro Murdaripen andro dujto baro mariben. Genocida Romů v době druhé světové války. Sborník z mezinárodního odborného semináře Pražská židovská obec, 27. 5. 2003, Praha 2003.
Anna Míšková, Helena Ondrášová: „Všecko mám za sebou, i ty nejhorší věci…“ Vzpomínky bývalé dětské vězenkyně v tzv. cikánském táboře v Hodoníně u Kunštátu, Bulletin Muzea romské kultury XXVIII, 2019, pp. 81–89.
Ctibor Nečas, Českoslovenští Romové v letech 1938–1945, Brno 1994.
Ctibor Nečas, Holocaust českých Romů, Praha 1999.
Ctibor Nečas, Pamětní seznam I – Hodonín, Praha 2014.
Ctibor Nečas, Transport romských vězňů z Hodonína u Kunštátu do Auschwitz-Birkenau, Bulletin Muzea romské kultury, 1997, No. 6, pp. 33–35.
Michal Schuster, Archivní fond Zemská donucovací pracovna Brno jako zdroj dokumentace romských obětí holokaustu v České republice – nálezová zpráva, Romano džaniben XXV, 2018, No. 1, pp. 123–140.
Michal Schuster, Proces s Blažejem Dydym na základě materiálů Mimořádného lidového soudu v Brně roku 1947, Romano džaniben XX, 2013, No. 1, pp. 73–101.

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Entry Author

Anna Míšková