Lidice is a name of a historic village situated in the north-west of Prague, the capital of Czech Republic. It is regarded as to be a particular symbol of Fascist despotism in the World War II. Even though the Nazi history is clouded in information, propaganda and doubts and a lot has been mentioned and documented against and in clarification of the Nazi movement.
Even so, as the story goes the history of this unfortunate city of Lidice is colored with the blood of 192 guys whose massacre was performed right here in 1942 by the Nazis. This all occurred for taking the revenge for Reinhard Heydrich who was the deputy Reichsprotektor of the then Nazi German Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The story was in no way ended here as the rest of the population of Lidice was sent to Nazi concentration camps exactly where numerous females and almost all the kids had been also murdered.
After the war the government of Czechoslovakia (now Czech and Slovak) announced to construct this village once more in a peace demonstration which was held on June ten, 1945, in which the surviving females from that cursed taking place participated. They were re-housed and the reconstruction was completed in 1949. Lidice was annunciated as a national cultural monument on March 30, 1962 with the intention to preserve this location as memorial for the victims.
In 1969 an academic sculptor professor Marie Uchytilová designed a bronze monument of Lidice kids as ‘The Memorial to the Youngsters Victims of the War’. The whole sculpture consists of 82 bronze statues of young children (42 girls and 40 boys) who were murdered at Chełmno in summer time 1942. A cross with a crown of thorns indicates the mass grave of the Lidice guys. There is also a museum which was built in 1962 in which the memorable Lidice image gallery is also placed. A renowned rose garden is also adjacent to this monument that was established as the consequence of an notion of a group ‘Lidice Shall Live’. It contains a enormous collection of practically all species of rose collected from around the world.
Lidice is also regarded as the emblem of all war victims. This also represents the memory of the sufferings of Lezaky villagers from the acute brutality and of the Romany folks in the gypsy camp of Lety.
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