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Lidice

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Lidice

Czechoslovak mining village, replacing one destroyed by the Nazis on 10 June 1942 as a reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The men were shot, the women sent to concentration camps, and the children taken to Germany. The officer responsible was hanged in 1946.



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Maria G Guzman, * Mayling Alvarez, * Rosmari Rodriguez-Roche, * Lidice Bernardo, * Tibaire Montes, ([dagger]) Susana Vazquez, * Luis Morier, * Angel Alvarez, * Ernest A.
Certainly the obscene manner of death, evocative of an auto-da-fe, attracts the compassionate and the curious--who do not, though, seem to have been comparably moved by such "martyred villages" as Oradour-sur-Glane or Lidice.
Visit artist Barton Lidice Benes's apartment in New York City's West Village and you may feel you're in a dream.
 
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