Lidice Memorial - Lidice, Czech Republic
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N 50° 08.635 E 014° 11.865
33U E 442677 N 5554939
Lidice Memorial - Lidice
Waymark Code: WMTZ3E
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 01/26/2017
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member bluesnote
Views: 36

The intention of Lidice Memorial is to take care of permanent preservation of the remembrance of the town of Lidice and the suffering of its residents who in 10.6.1942 became the victims of Nazi violence and to keep the name of the Lidice village as the world’s symbol of all victims of war crimes.

Lidice, the name of which became a symbol of Fascist despotism in World War II, lies 20 km west of Prague and eight km from Kladno. The tragedy ot this little village and its 503 inhabitants began on June 10, 1942 a few hours after midnight. At the orders of K. H. Frank 173 Lidice men were shot on that fateful day in the garden of the Horak farm. The women and children were taken to the gymnasium of Kladno grammar school. Three days later the children were taken from their mothers and, except for those selected for re-education in German families and babies under one year of age, were poisoned by exhaust gas in specially adapted vehicles in the Nazi extermination camp at Chelmno upon Nerr in Poland. The women were sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp which usually meant quick or lingering death for the inmates.
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