Roma activist Čeněk Růžička is dead. He died at the age of 76, the news server romea.cz reported on Sunday.

Růžička was a co-founder and chair of the Roma Holocaust Compensation Committee. He campaigned for the construction of a memorial to the Roma Holocaust on the site of the former concentration camp in Lety u Písku and the demolition of a pig farm on the site of the concentration camp. In 2017, Růžička received the Alice Garrigue Masaryk Prize, awarded annually by the American Embassy in Prague in the field of human rights.

May he rest in peace!

• Roma-Aktivist Čeněk Růžička im Alter von 76 Jahren gestorben. In: Radio Prague International. 11.12.2022. https://deutsch.radio.cz/roma-aktivist-cenek-ruzicka-im-alter-von-76-jahren-gestorben-8769453
• Čeněk Růžička. In: Pamet Naroda. 11.12.2022. https://www.pametnaroda.cz/cs/ruzicka-cenek-1946
• Zemřel romský aktivista Čeněk Růžička, snažil se o odškodnění obětí a důstojnou připomínku romských obětí holokaustu. In: Refresher. 11.12.2022. https://refresher.cz/126945-Zemrel-romsky-aktivista-Cenek-Ruzicka-snazil-se-o-odskodneni-obeti-a-dustojnou-pripominku-romskych-obeti-holokaustu