Lidice
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Lidice is a village of the Czech Republic which was razed by Nazi troops on 10 June 1942 as a reprisal for the killing by Czech commandoes parachuted in from Britain of Reinhardt Heydrich, the Reich Protector of Bohemia & Moravia (Nazi governor of western Czechoslovakia). The 192 adult male villagers were murdered by the Germans and the rest of the population sent to concentration camps. heydrich ahd been ambushed on27 May 1942 in Prague and died of his injuries on 4 June.
Of the 105 children deported from Lidice, only 18 ever returned home. The majority were probably murdered in concentration camp gas chambers.