Ten Young Survivors Of Lidice Atrocity
LONDON, Nov. 25.—Six years after the German atrocities at Lidice, where the Gestapo ob.iterated the village, removed all the children, shot all the men and deported all the women to forced labour, the Czech authorities have decided that only 10 out of 100 of the kidnapped children can be traced.
A notice has been published in the Czechoslovak official Gazette declaring that the other 90 are officially dead. The Lidice children were traced to Lodz, in Poland, where a group of them, described by the Nazis as "racial.y suitable.” were separated from the remainder and sent to German homes. Despite the most strenuous efforts the Czech and Polish authorities have been unab’e to trace the remaining 90 beyond the fact that they were removed from Lodz in Julv 1942. A complete list of the children removed from Lidice has never been •obtained, for although the Gestapo records dealing with 100 of them were found, there are be’leved to have been a number of others. Most of those
"adopted” by Germans have been traced, and six were found hidden in 'H orphanage in Prague-
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Wanganui Chronicle, 27 November 1948, Page 5
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