Hundreds commemorate 65th anniversary of Lezaky massacre

Hundreds of people attended a memorial ceremony on Sunday on the site of Lezaky, one of the two Czech villages that the Nazis razed to the ground 65 years ago. In retaliation for the assassination of the Nazi governor of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich, all the children in the village were transported to either concentration camps or resettled with German families whilst all 52 adults were killed and Lezaky grazed to the ground on June 24th 1942.

Among those who attended the ceremony was Senator Petr Pithart, who said that the state still has a debt to pay to the victims of Lezaky and should establish a memorial. Sunday's commemorative event was also used to christen a book on the Lezaky legacy called Krizovatky casu (Crossroads of Time), written by Lezaky survivor Jarmila Stulikova-Dolezalova.