Stock Photo - In this July 14, 2017, file photo, pig farm in Lety, south Bohemia. Czech state will pay 450 million crowns for pig farm situated at site of former Nazi camp for Roma people in Lety. The Czech government released purchase contract. The labour camp in Lety was opened in 1940. A similar facility existed in Hodonin u Kunstatu, south Moravia. In 1942, both facilities turned into internment camps and in August of the same year, Romany camps were established there. Until May 1943, 1308 Roma men, women and children were interned there, 327 of whom perished in the camp and over 500 were sent to the extermination camp in Auschwitz where most of them died. The construction of the Lety pig farm started under the communist regime in 1972. (CTK Photo/Vaclav Pancer)