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Bronze Monument In The Village Of Lidice Czech Republic. Even less were reunited with their children. The bronze sculpture by marie uchytilova in lidice, czech republic commemorates the children who were killed by nazis in the summer of 1942.

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All the animals in the village were slaughtered as well. Only granite grave stones now stand at what was once the village of ležáky. The now excavated foundations of the school, the church and the horák farm.

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Below the museum, is all that is left of the original lidice village: While far from the only example of such cruelty during the war, lidice became famous around the world. Before world war ii it was a mining settlement of the kladno coal basin and had a population of about 450. In reprisal for the assassination of reich protector reinhard heydrich in the late spring of 1942, all 173 men from the village who were over 15 years of age.