History. Holocaust Studies. In 1994 the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the President engaged in a cover-up trying to convince American writer Paul Polansky that there were no longer any living survivors of Lety, the World War II Romany (Gypsy) death camp in southern Bohemia. Polansky found more than a hundred Lety survivors still living today in the Czech Republic. The stories collected here are the result of his interviews with those survivors. Reading the survivors' own words shows why the President's Office in Prague does not want the world to know what really happened to the Czech Romany during WWII - because it is still happening today. Many romany died in Lety. Every day. Every day there were deaths. I was walking around the camp because I was working in the kitchen and in the laundry, so I saw many dead bodies. Every day dead bodies. They were all murdered. Murdered every day (J.S.).
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Paul Polansky was born in Mason City, Iowa in 1942. He came to international attention in 1994 with his revelations about Lety, a World War II Romany (Gypsy) death camp. His book LIVING THROUGH IT TWICE, Poems of the Romany Holcaust (1940 - 1997) has been mentioned in reports on BBC Radio, National Public Radio (All Things Considered) and inspired a forthcoming CBS television documentary.
In 1999, GG published two more Polansky books, THE STORM, a novel about Jews and Gypsies used as slave labor on a nobleman's estate in South Bohemia during WW II, and STRAY DOG, a cycle of poems about violence inside and out the boxing ring.
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An excellent piece of research.,
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This review is from: Black Silence: The Lety Survivors Speak (Hardcover)
I would thoroughly recommend this boook to anyone who wants to find out first-hand about the experiences of Romany people living in the Czech Republic. The quality of scholarship and the attention to detail are obvious.
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Romany victims speak,
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This review is from: Black Silence: The Lety Survivors Speak (Hardcover)
The first hand accounts here are as ghastly as any I have read in other Holocaust compendiums.
I'd never heard of Lety until I purchased this volume some years ago. But this book is most important because it gives voice to the Roma survivors of that era, specifically of a camp established solely for Rom victims. No library on the Nazi Holocaust is complete without this book.
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By Terry Brigman (Mingo, Iowa, US) - See all my reviews
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There is more to the Holocaust then what we have been shown. This is a must read; if you want to be more informed, rather then excepting what we have been spoon fed.
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