Antonín Lagryn
Deputy Survivors
He comes from a Sinti family. His mother, Ilona Maria Hauer, originally from Germany, went through the Ravensbrück concentration camp. His father, Josef Lagryn, was imprisoned in the so-called Gypsy camp in Lety u Písku and subsequently in other Nazi concentration camps. During the war, his first wife and their four children died in the concentration camps. At the turn of the 1960s and 1970s, it was the seeking of the fate of one of these children, the boy František, which was led by a historian Ctibor Nečas, who once attended elementary school with František, in order to research and publish his first professional papers on the Holocaust of the Roma in Czechoslovakia. Antonín's grandparents from his father's side also died in the Lety camp. Antonín's uncle, Jan, went through the so-called Gypsy camp in Hodonín u Kunštátu and died in Auschwitz. Antonín Lagryn learned about the tragic events of the World War II through his family, the memory of which is kept and passed on. In 1998, he was one of the founding members of the Committee for the Compensation of the Roma Holocaust.
