ANNIVERSARY OF LIDICE

Press, Volume LXXX, Issue 24280, 10 June 1944, Page 6

ANNIVERSARY OF LIDICE

APPEAL BY ASSOCIATION OF CZECHOSLOVAKS

“On June 10, 1942, the Germans perpetrated one of their vilest and most revolting deeds, topping the list ot their innumerable crimes.” says Dr. D. Steiner, president of the Association of Czechoslovaks in New Zealand, .in a message to the people of the Dominion. “Lidice, a small miners’ village in Czechoslovakia, was razed to the ground as a reprisal for the assassination of Hitlers hangman, Reinhard Heydrich. All men were shot, the women imprisoned, and the children deported to Germany. The village was burned to the ground and its name removed from all official records,” he says. "An ‘Allied Nations Week’ will be conducted under the sponsorship of the Patriotic Fund Board throughout New Zealand during the week ending June 17, and this gives my association the opportunity to appeal for the first time to the general public for funds in aid of the victims of Lidice and the many thousand unfortunates sharing their fate. Comforts are needed also for the Czechoslovak soldiers and airmen who fought valiantly in Africa, Russia, and over Europe. Contributions should be addressed to P.O. Box 260, Wellington, and will be acknowledged individually,” says the appeal.