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ALL THAT WAS LEFT OF THEM All but three of the women of Lidice 'have returned from concentration camps to their little Czech village, when in 1942 all their menfolk were shot and their children wrested from .their homes by the 'Nazis, Radio Prague said to-day. The radio, 1 disclosing statements made at the first meeting of the Society for the Reconstruction of Lidice held in Prague, added that 81 children, sent by the Nazis to “ educational institutions,” were still missing. Vaclav Nosek, Czech Minister of the Interior, told the meeting the new Lidice would be “ not only the home of the women and children of Lidice, but a place of pilgrimage for visitors from the whole world,” the radio said.
A housing and reconstruction programme was discussed for the village, which has become a by-word for Nazi atrocities. All that was left of the homes of 660 people, after German “ reprisal ” razing, was a heap off small, scattered stones no bigger than bricks.
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Evening Star, Issue 26043, 6 March 1947, Page 8
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167BACK TO LIDICE Evening Star, Issue 26043, 6 March 1947, Page 8
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