VĚSTNÍK church for its holy vessels. In the village, the dead were left lying where they fell, and the newly brought out soon-to-be victims had to first walk past them and stand in front of them. The men were not blindfolded and were taken to the place of execution without bonds. This spectacle continued until there were 173 dead bodies lying in the Horák farm orchard. The next day, another 19 men who were working in a mine, along with seven women, were sent to Prague, where they were also shot. Any still-standing walls were blown up. Bulldozers flattened the ruins, uprooted the fruit-trees, and filled in the lake and even diverted the stream. Ploughs were driven back and forth across the acres of rubble so that no recognizable outline should remain.
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Lidice Memorial
Weeping Woman Memorial
Lidice, 1945 The re-establishment of the village began soon after the liberation of Czechoslovakia in May 1945.
Sculpture commemorates the children of Lidice, killed at Chełmno. , . , . , . , .
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old: Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them." ~ Laurence Binyon Memorial ceremony on the site of the village to honor Lidice victims. http://www.livingprague.com/lidice.htm www.google.com/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=lidice http://www.timemoneyandblood.com/HTML/posters/british/lidice.html http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/heydrichkilling.html
Lidice survivor passes Marie Šupíková, one of the last survivors of the Lidice massacre, died on March 22, 2021, at the age of 88. Marie Šupíková, née Doležalová, was born on August 22, 1932, in Lidice, where she lived with her parents and her older brother Josef. After the attack on Lidice on June 9, 1942, Marie was separated from her mother and put on a train to Polish Lódź with other children. Mrs. Šupíková, who was 10 at the time of the event, was one of the few children selected for re-education, escaping death in a concentration camp. In the course of
Lidice Municipal Office today
“The living owe it to those who no longer can speak to tell their story for them.” ~ Czeslaw Milosz , . , . , . , .
her life she worked selflessly to help educate young people about the Holocaust. Šupíková was adopted by Alfred and Ilsa Schiller and renamed Ingeborg Schiller. She lived with the Schillers for three years until a Czech organization looking for lost children found her. Marie learned that her father and brother had been killed and her mother was dying. Her mother died of tuberculosis in 1946, and Šupíková moved in with an aunt in Kladno. Marie graduated from a nursing school in Ostrava. In 1947, at the age of 15, Šupíková testified at the Nuremberg trial. https://english.radio.cz/memoriam-marie-supikova-one-last-survivors-lidice-massacre-8712796
Texas Czech Genealogical Society Website: txczgs.org Promoting the study of the genealogy of the particular group of people known as “Texas Czechs.” For membership: Marie Dulak 979-589-1903
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