The Museum of Romani Culture you are standing in front of was founded in 1991 on the initiative of Romani intellectuals. Its main mission is to preserve and make accessible to the general public the culture and history of the Roma as part of both our and the world's heritage. It also focuses on the genocide of the Czech and Moravian Roma, which took place in parallel with the genocide of the Czech and Moravian Jews during the occupation. Since 2018, the museum has managed the grounds of the former so-called Gypsy camps in Lety u Písku and Hodonín u Kunštátu, where the victims were imprisoned before being deported to the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp.
Like the Jewish victims, the Roma, despite the escalating persecution, often could not believe that upstanding citizens could be murdered with impunity, along with their entire families.