Hodonín concentration camp

Hodonín concentration camp (also called Hodonínek) was a World War II internment camp in Hodonín for Romani people from the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. == Background == On 2 March 1939, (two weeks before the German occupation), the Czechoslovak government ordered that a labor camp be set up for "people avoiding work and living off crime" (at this time labour duty was mandatory).