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Ležáky ...
... "(nemecky Ležak, od roku 1939 Lezaky) byla osada na Chrudimsku, která byla 24. cervna 1942, 14 dní po vyhlazení Lidic v dusledku heydrichiády vypálena a její obyvatele zavraždeni nacisty jako odplata za to, že v ní byla ukrývána vysílacka Libuše parašutistické skupiny Silver A, která se úcastnila atentátu na ríšského protektora Reinharda Heydricha.
Casne odpoledne byly Ležáky obklíceny a obyvatelé shromáždeni a prevezeni do Pardubic, kde bylo 33 dospelých pozde vecer zastreleno. 11 detí bylo odesláno do plynových komor a jen dve dány na prevýchovu do Nemecka, odkud se po válce vrátily.
Osadu Ležáky tvorilo 8 domu seskupených kolem mlýna na rícce Ležák v katastru obcí Miretice a Louka. Po válce nebyly Ležáky obnoveny, ale na jejich míste vznikl památník, který tvorí vyznacené pudorysy puvodních budov a pietní místo. Od 1. 6. 2008 ho spravuje Památník Lidice."
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Ležáky ...
... "(German: Ležak, from 1939: Lezaky), a part of municipality of Miretice, was a village in Czechoslovakia. During the German occupation of Czechoslovakia the village was completely razed to the ground by Nazi forces during the reprisals for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942.
Ležáky was a settlement inhabited by poor stone-cutters and little cottagers. It was composed of eight houses concentrated near the mill; this mill had created the basis for the village named after the rivulet Ležák.
Since 24 September 1941, SS-Obergruppenführer and General of Police Reinhard Heydrich had been Acting Reichsprotektor of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.This area of the former Czechoslovakia had been occupied by Nazi Germany since 5 April 1939.
In December 1941 several Allied paratroopers were dropped into the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia. Some of them were sent to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich in a planned action known as Operation Anthropoid, and another group was part of Operation Silver A. Several people from Ležáky helped this group, providing a hiding place for their radio set."
On the morning of 27 May 1942, Heydrich's car was attacked by the Czech and Slovak soldiers (on behalf of the Czechoslovak government-in-exile), Jozef Gabcík and Jan Kubiš.Heydrich died on 4 June 1942.
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