A village wiped from the map: Lidice lives on in memory

Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0100Wed, 22 Jul 2026 07:44:38 +0200A village wiped from the map: Lidice lives on in memoryhttps://english.radio.cz/a-village-wiped-map-lidice-lives-memory-8889116© 2026 Radio Prague International Eighty-four years ago, on June 10, 1942, the Nazis annihilated the Central Bohemian village of Lidice in retaliation for the assassination of Acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak parachutists. In one of the most brutal reprisals of WWII, they shot 173 men, deported the women to concentration camps, and murdered most of the children or took them away for Germanization. The village was razed to the ground. encr@radio.cz (Cesky Rozhlas)webmaster@radio.cz (CRo Webmaster) https://english.radio.cz/sites/default/files/images/859d49a535aabe258bba7667e186b021.jpg?timestamp=1781090336 A village wiped from the map: Lidice lives on in memory https://english.radio.cz/a-village-wiped-map-lidice-lives-memory-8889116 Radio Prague International Radio Prague International radio.prague.int@gmail.com clean 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9