Lidice survivor Jaroslava Skleničková dies at 98

Jaroslava Skleničková, the last surviving woman of the Lidice massacre, has died at the age of 98. Skleničková was just 16 when she was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp by the Nazis with her mother and older sister. Her father was executed, along with the other men from Lidice. Skleničková passed away peacefully at her home in Lidice, surrounded by family, her daughter Jitka Pečová confirmed to the Czech News Agency.

The small central Bohemian village of Lidice was razed to the ground by the Nazis on June 10, 1942, in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The men were shot and the women and children were sent to concentration camps. The site of the tragedy is now a national memorial.