Lidice Memorial gets photographic documentation of Nazi destruction of village

The Lidice Memorial has acquired unique photographic documentation of the village's destruction by the Nazis, Mlada fronta Dnes reported. The collection of 40 photos came from a woman in a nearby village; her husband had a drug-store during the war and made copies of pictures the Germans left to be developed. Lidice was razed to the ground in 1942 as a reprisal for the assassination of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich. The men in the village were executed while the women were sent to concentration camps.