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In 1942, eighteen-year-old Romni Bozena Růžičková was sent to the “gypsy” concentration camp in Lety u Písek. She was pregnant but had to face beatings and go to hard work, breaking stones on a road construction site. On October 16, 1942, she gave birth to a baby girl at the “marodka” with the help of an older fellow inmate, whom she named Markéta. He daughter died two months later of typhus.

• ‚Mně už to bylo jedno, jestli mě zabijou.‘ Podívejte se na příběhy lidí, kteří prošli táborem v Letech. In: iRozhlas. 02.06.2024. https://www.irozhlas.cz/veda-technologie/historie/mne-uz-bylo-jedno-jestli-me-zabijou-podivejte-se-na-pribehy-lidi-kteri-prosli_2406021938_jar