The record
A panel of the Wall among the exhibits of the preserved communist labour camp at Vojna, run by the Příbram mining museum, 5 km south-east of the town.
The camp at Vojna lies in the woods about five kilometres south-east of Příbram, on the boundary of the villages of Lazsko, Lešetice and Zavržice, and takes its name from the hill at whose foot it stands. German prisoners of war built it as a labour camp in 1947–1949, records the Hornické muzeum Příbram, the mining museum that runs it; after the communist takeover it became, in the account of the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, the largest forced-labour camp of the Czechoslovak uranium industry, holding nearly two thousand prisoners in 1959, political prisoners among them, who mined uranium for the Soviet Union in two adjoining shafts. The camp closed in 1961, the army used the site until 2000, sixteen of its buildings survive, and it has been a cultural monument since 2001.
The institute's visitor's guide of August 2023 lists what there is to see besides the buildings: Jiří Sozanský's sculpture Vzestup, the ORBIS PICTUS: Evropa gallery with its canvas by twenty painters from across Europe, Vladimír Paleček's Zoufalství, and “a preserved panel of the famous Berlin Wall”. A photograph on Wikimedia Commons taken on 12 July 2012 shows that panel: a single element standing upright on the grass beside the camp road, almost bare of paint, with a plaque headed BERLÍNSKÁ ZEĎ. It had therefore been there for at least a decade when the institute wrote. Nothing read says when it came or who gave it, and the museum's own pages for the memorial do not mention it. The Wall Net, whose entry the Berlin Wall Archive's listing follows, counts one segment, which is what the photograph shows.
How did it get here?
Not established. The panel was at the camp by 12 July 2012, when it was photographed; nothing read says when it came or who gave it.
Sources
Listed by the Berlin Wall Archive as #340.
Vojna, unikátní památník utrpení politických vězňů u Příbrami — Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů ↗
The institute's visitor's guide of 25 August 2023 (Jakub Šafránek): the former Vojna camp lies a few kilometres beyond Příbram in the woods by Lešetice, began after the war as an internment camp for German prisoners of war and became the largest forced-labour camp of the Czechoslovak uranium industry, with nearly two thousand prisoners in 1959, who mined uranium for the Soviet Union in two adjoining shafts; the army used the site after the camp closed in 1961 until 2000, sixteen buildings survive, it has been a cultural monument since 2001, and among the things to see are Jiří Sozanský's sculpture Vzestup, the ORBIS PICTUS: Evropa gallery with a canvas by twenty painters from across Europe, a preserved panel of the famous Berlin Wall and Vladimír Paleček's Zoufalství; the memorial is about eight kilometres from Příbram by road 66 towards Milín.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Památník Vojna Lešetice — Hornické muzeum Příbram ↗
The museum's own page for its branch: the camp stands in the woods 5 km south-east of Příbram at 582 m, on the boundary of the cadastres of Lazsko, Lešetice and Zavržice, was built as a labour camp by German prisoners of war in 1947–1949 and was named after the nearby hill Vojna; the page does not mention the Wall panel.
Institutional sourceSource accessed 2026-09-17
File:Tábor Vojna. Díl Berlínské zdi.jpg — Wikimedia Commons ↗
Photograph by ŠJů taken on 12 July 2012 (CC BY-SA 3.0): a single element of the Wall, almost bare of paint, standing upright on grass beside the camp's gravel road with a plaque headed BERLÍNSKÁ ZEĎ; geotagged 49.63967, 14.00172.
PhotographSource accessed 2026-09-17
Pribram, CZ — The Wall Net ↗
Entry of 20 January 2016: one segment at the Vojna Memorial, Lešetice; the camp was a forced-labour camp from 1949 to 1951 and then a prison for political prisoners until it closed on 1 June 1961, was used by the army until 2000, was proclaimed a National Cultural Monument in January 2001 and opened to the public in 2005 after reconstruction.
General referenceSource accessed 2026-09-17
Berlin Wall Archive ↗
The source lists this place as a Berlin Wall location. Coordinates, where supplied, are source-reported and may represent a general area. This is not independent verification of authenticity, current presence, or public access.
Inventory listingSource accessed 2026-09-17 · Source record 340
Source-reported segments: 1. This is not a separately verified count.
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