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Lidice

[li-dyi-tse, lee-duh-chey, lid-uh-see]

noun

  1. a village in the W Czech Republic: suffered a ruthless reprisal by the Nazis in 1942 for the assassination of a high Nazi official.



Lidice

/ ˈlidjtsɛ /

noun

  1. a mining village in the Czech Republic: destroyed by the Germans in 1942 in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich; rebuilt as a national memorial

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In reprisal for the assassination of deputy SS leader Reinhard Heydrich, the Nazis razed the village of Lidice, executed its men and deported its women and children to death camps.

From Salon

But the genocide in Gaza, like the slaughter at Lidice, cannot be hidden.

From Salon

The parallels between the children of Lidice and the children of Gaza are undeniable.

From Salon

The bronze sculpture by Marie Uchytilová, “Memorial to the Children Victims of the War,” depicting the 82 children from the Czech village of Lidice who were murdered in 1942, serves as a haunting reminder of the barbarity that defined the Nazis’ Lidice massacre.

From Salon

"Wola district in Warsaw, Zamojszczyzna, Oradour and Lidice today are called Bucha, Irpin, Hostomel, Mariupol and Donetsk," he added, referring to places where mass killings took place in World War Two and sites where Ukraine and its allies accuse Russian forces of committing atrocities.

From Reuters

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