The Lidice Memorial – Audio-visual Exposition

The fate of the central-Bohemian village was affected by the occupation of Czechoslovakia during the IInd World War and, especially, by the attempt to assassinate the Reich protector Reinhard Heydrich.

Despite the fact that the village had nothing in common with the act, on June 10, 1942 the gestapo executed the brutal act of revenge on the inhabitants of Lidice.

173 men were shot dead, the women were dragged off to the concentration camp Ravensbrück and the children either handed over for Germanization or carried away to the Polish Chelmno. Subsequently, the whole village was burnt down and levelled to the ground. The Lidice Memorial is formed by an adjusted pious area with the joint grave of the men of Lidice and the foundations of the original estates, reconstructed museum with the new audiovisual exposition “And the innocent were guilty…” and the exhibition hall In memoriam, devoted to the history of the village and to the Memorial. The area is decorated by a number of sculptures by fore Czech authors, worth attention is, especially, the sculptural group of the eighty-two murdered children of Lidice by the academic sculptor Marie Uchytilová. In the rose garden, during the season more than 23 thousand roses of 199 varieties are in bloom from the whole world. Located in the gallery is a part of the collection of works of art that were devoted to Lidice, in the years after the war, by artists from the whole world.