Hodonín u Kunštátu

Hodonín u Kunštátu, in the testimonies as Hodonínek – a village in Moravia in the district of Blansko, where a camp for Roma and Sinti was established on 2 August 1942 with a capacity of 800 persons, but where approximately 1 400 Romani men, women and children, mostly from Moravia, were interned. Most of them were deported to the Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp. As a result of the slave labour and inhuman living conditions, approximately 200 people perished in the Hodonín camp and were buried in nearby Černovice and in the forest near the camp at a place later called Žalov; only few of the internees were released after the camp was closed in 1943.