Memorial ceremony marks 66 years since Nazi massacre in Lidice

Hundreds of people, including high-ranking politicians and cultural figures, attended a memorial ceremony on Saturday morning on the site of Lidice, the Czech village razed to the ground by the Nazis. The chairman of the Senate Přemysl Sobotka in his speech warned against the underestimation of present-day conflicts that don’t seem to concern the Czech Republic. On June 10th 1942, 173 men were shot and the women and children were transported to concentration camps as a reprisal for the assassination of Nazi governor Reinhard Heydrich. Of the children only seventeen survived.