MEETING IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC - CHAIRMAN OF THE JAN KARSKI INSTITUTE COUNCIL, DEPUTY MINISTER ARKADIUSZ MULARCZYK

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On January 17, Deputy Minister Arkadiusz Mularczyk was in Prague at the invitation of Czech Deputy Foreign Minister Jiří Kozák and the Director General for European Affairs, Jaroslav Kurfürst.

The Government Plenipotentiary for Compensation for Damage Caused by German Aggression and Occupation in 1939-1945 symbolically commemorated the victims of the Second World War by going to the memorial site in Lidice.

Zgliszcza Lidic, 1942 r., Źródło: wolny dostęp
Zgliszcza Lidic, 1942. Open-source access.

On 10 June 1942, in retaliation for the killing of Reinhard Heidrich, the Germans burnt down the village buildings. 192 men were murdered in the village, while 60 women and 88 children were taken to concentration camps and did not live to see liberation. The Germans demolished the ruins, then ploughed the village area, wiping it out.