Lidice Lives - A Short Documentary by James Truswell

On June 10, 1942, the village of Lidice was razed to the ground as a reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. The residents were gathered in the village square. The women and children were separated from the men. The men (173) were shot in groups of ten and left where they lay and another 7 women were killed with their men. Twenty more men from Lidice were killed about a week later. The surviving women and children (approximately 196 women and 105 children) were sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp. The women were used as slave labor and the children who looked "Aryan" were put in Germanization programs. 82 children were sent to the Chelmno death camp. After the war, only 143 women and 17 children of Lidice survived. The short documentary includes a short 1 minute film that the Germans recorded at the time showing the destruction of the town by explosives and fire. It was leveled flat by bulldozers afterwards.