The Jews and Romany people in the Písek region: The forceful extinction of distinctive cultures

Březnice

• Lokšany Ghetto - partly preserved layout of the former ghetto with some buildings still standing, e.g. the synagogue, the Jewish Town Hall (interiors are not accessible)

Lety

• Memorial at the place of a gypsy detention camp from the times of Hitler's Protectorate (freely accessible)

Milevsko

• Former synagogue - a unique architectural façade design, the only preserved tabernacle with interiors in South Bohemia (the interior is accessible by prior arrangement at the Information Centre for the Milevsko Region).

Mirotice

• Cemetery - a preserved mortuary - depot, a communal coffin situated in the mortuary, memorial to the victims of the holocaust, the Kohen Gate, various types of tombstones from Baroque to the first half of the 20th century. The most interesting Jewish cemetery in the Písek Region (keys are available from the house on the street leading to the cemetery).

Mirovice

• Memorial to the victims of the gypsy detention camp in Lety, graves of the victims (local cemetery, freely accessible)

Písek

• the poet Richard Weiner - buried at the Lesní hřbitov Cemetery (the cemetery is accessible from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. in summer and 8 a.m.-5 p.m. in winter)
• a Jewish cemetery, that had been devastated by the army, was reverently partly restored in 1991-93 (key available at the Information Centre Písek)
• Synagogue in Soukenická Street- a unique architectural exterior design in the so-called Moorish style (the interior is not accessible)
• see also History of Jews in Písek

File date: 20.2.2008