Hundreds attend Ležáky memorial ceremony

Hundreds of people attended a memorial ceremony on Sunday at the site of the former village of Ležáky in central Bohemia, which was burned to the ground by the Nazis in 1942. As in the case of Lidice, which was destroyed two weeks earlier, Ležáky’s citizens were either murdered immediately or sent to concentration camps. Both atrocities were carried out in response to the assassination of the Nazi governor of Bohemia and Moravia Reinhard Heydrich. Among those in attendance at Sunday’s memorial were the Šťulík sisters who survived the massacre and were sent at the age of one and two-and-a-half to be brought up by German families.