Útěk z tábora v Letech na nově nalezených fotografiích
Escape from Lety Camp in Newly Discovered Photographs

Summary/Abstract: More than one hundred prisoners escaped from the so-called gypsy camp in Lety, near Písek, during the one year it existed, from August 1942 to August 1943. Perhaps the most famous escape took place on 15 September 1942. We know how it happened from the memories of one of the refugees, the legendary “Black Partisan” Josef Serinek. The newly discovered photographs of the Protectorate’s criminal police, published for the first time here, are a unique visual accompaniment to Serinek’s story. They portray, amongst others, the key plotter of the escape, Karel Serinek, aka the “mysterious” Jarek, whose appearance had previously been unknown.

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