This website uses cookies to ensure you get the best experience on our website. Learn more

Lidice Memorial

x
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Lidice Memorial
Phone:
+420 312 253 063

Hours:
Sunday9am - 4pm
Monday9am - 4pm
Tuesday9am - 4pm
Wednesday9am - 4pm
Thursday9am - 4pm
Friday9am - 4pm
Saturday9am - 4pm


In World War II, in Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, the Lidice massacre was a complete destruction of the village of Lidice, in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, now in the Czech Republic, in June 1942 on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler. In reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942, all 173 males over 15 years of age from the village were executed on 10 June 1942. Another 11 men who were not in the village were arrested and executed soon afterwards, along with several others already under arrest. The 184 women and 88 children were deported to concentration camps; a few children considered racially suitable for Germanisation were handed over to SS families and the rest were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were gassed to death.The Associated Press, quoting German radio received in New York, said: All male grownups of the town were shot, while the women were placed in a concentration camp, and the children were entrusted to appropriate educational institutions. About 340 people from Lidice died because of the German reprisal and after the war ended, only 153 women and 17 children returned.
Continue reading...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Attraction Location



Lidice Memorial Videos

Shares

x
x

Menu