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Volume 102 Number 24
Benevolence
H E R A L D
★ Humanity ISSN —07458800
★ Brotherhood
June 11, 2014
Remembering Lidice
For centuries, Lidice was an ordinary agricultural village, which belonged to the Buštehrad manor, located in a shallow valley of the Lidice Creek in the Kladno district some 20 km west of Prague. The village is a quiet town that lies adjacent to valleys and of meadows, with a few stone ruins of a farmhouse and church, and a striking bronze sculpture of children. What happened to Lidice on June 10, 1942, shocked the entire world: the German government announced that it had destroyed the small village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia, killing every adult male and some 52 women. All surviving women and children were then deported to concentration camps or if found suitable to be “Germanized” - sent to the greater Reich. The Nazis then proudly proclaimed that the village of Lidice, its residents, and its very name, were now forever blotted from memory.
June 10, 1942 • 72nd Anniversary • June 10, 2014
Got SPJST Scrapbooks? We will archive them . . .
Lynda Novak, left, and Bessie Petr, both of Lodge 84, Dallas, review past Lodge 84 Youth Club scrapbooks that were recently scanned and archived by the SPJST Vestnik/Communication Department. The scrapbooks will soon be available in an online archive at www.spjst.org. Watch the Vestnik for details, and see page 2 for more information.
Vestnik Pet Parade
Mirror, mirror on the wall . . . who has the cutest pet of all? You do! The Vestnik is looking for photos of members and their pets. Include your name, your SPJST lodge number, and your pet’s name(s). Photos must include member(s) and their pet(s). Photos will be published in a special Vestnik Pet Parade section in an upcoming issue. Send your photo and information by July 16 to melaniez@vvm.com; text to (254) 534-0807; or mail to SPJST Vestnik, PO Box 100, Temple, Texas 76503.
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Important Dates ...................................3 Interest Rates.......................................3 Readers Write ......................................4 SL Vice President’s Posting ...............4 Lodge Section .....................................5 ENC Updates........................................5
After the Munich Agreement of September 1938, Hitler’s troops occupied the ethnic-German border regions of Bohemia and Moravia (the Sude-
Inside This Week’s Vestnik
In Memoriam ......................................17 Youth Section.....................................18 ENC Tee-Shirt Order Form ...............23 Czech Cultural Calendar...................24 Advertisements ............................28-29 Lodge Calendar .................................30
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Lodge 79 Corpus Christi member honored
tenland). Soon afterward, Hungary received territory in southern Slovakia and Ruthenia. Czechoslovakia ceased to exist in March 1939 when Hitler occupied the rest of the Czech lands, and the remaining part of Slovakia became a Nazi puppet state. Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia had tragic consequences for Lidice. In order to suppress the growing antiFascist resistance movement, security police chief SS Obergruppenfuhrer
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Lodge 169 Brenham supports senior citizens
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District Two Beseda Dancers host fundraiser