LIDICE VILLAGE AND MEMORIAL

A Village Preserved in Memory

LIDICE VILLAGE AND MEMORIAL

Tours are private and price is based on minimum 2 people. Groups over 6 inquire individually!

99€ / person

OVERVIEW:
If you are interested in Lidice village and memorial, this private tour is for you! The story of Lidice is definitely part of Operation Anthropoid but the sad parts is, that people of Lidice had nothing to do with it the covert military undertaking. Immediately after the assassination of Heydrich, terror was unleashed across the entire Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. The main focus was concentrated on Prague where the Gestapo wasn’t able to acquire any clues as to the perpetrators or their whereabouts although executions of Czech elite continued, apace, the whole nation living in fear.

Two wanted Czechoslovak soldiers who disappeared in 1939 called Josef Horak and Josef Stříbrný were from Lidice, both of them serving in the British RAF. Around the same time a man by a name Jiří Říha decided to pretend he was a paratrooper called Josef Horák which enabled him to start an affair with Anna Maruščáková, who fell hopelessly in love with him until he disappeared. To bring the affair to an end Riha wrote her a letter and left it at her place of employ where Anna’s boss read it instead.

The fear let him to report it to Gestapo, because the message clearly said that he must go into hiding after assassination of Heydrich and his supposed involvement. This in turn led to the Gestapo arresting Jiří and Anna, Anna saying during the questioning that she was told to pass regards to family Horakovy at Lidice and that is what started the whole massacre, purportedly the reason the massacre was instigated.

On June 10th 1942, one hundred and seventy three men were randomly shot on sight, the women taken to concentration camps and separated from their children, the final tragedy 82 children gassed using vans whilst travelling through Poland, Lidice itself was completely destroyed by German artillery.

This was the breaking point for the Munich betrayal thanks to British public who demonstrated and were calling for justice, the British government annulled the whole agreement, promising that Czechoslovakia will be fully recovered within its original borders after the war.

An enormous price was eventually paid for the freedom and the worldwide guesture when people named their children Lidice, along with seventy three 73 towns and districts in sixteen countries, all of which carry the name Lidice.
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