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WEISMANN informed the firing squad that it was the will of the
Fuehrer they were about to carry out.
From the Horak farm the men were led out into the garden
behind the barn in tens and shot. The massacres lasted from morning
until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. Afterwards the executioners had
themselves photographed with the corpses on the execution ground.
The pictures show both boys and older men. They show that they
had put straw on the wall so that the bullets should not rebound.
At the same time, 7 o'clock in the morning, the first building,
belonging to HLIM, on the road to Hostoun, was set on fire and after
that one house after another was burned to the ground by the
Gestapo. They brought two barrels of petrol and in front of each
house poured out a pailful to light the fires.
On June-llth, 20 Jews came from Terezin who had to dig graves
near the place of execution and throw in the corpses head to toe and
side by side. Afterwards quicklime was poured over the corpses
which were then covered by boards. Then the corpses taken from
the cemetery were placed in the same graves and the cemetery
wiped out. ,
On June 12th, German pioneers fitted into the walls of the
centuries old church of St. Martin, explosive charges. Sgt. Jan
STRUED who acted as liaison officer once more called the Gestapo
from Kladno to watch the complete destruction of the ancient
church.-A few months later fields covered the ground where
Lidice had stood.
The fate of the men of Lidice has been described. 172 men and
youths from 16 years upwards were shot on June loth, 1942. Another
19 who worked in coalmines of Kladno on June 9th and loth, were
later arrested in the collieries or in the nearby woods, taken to
Prague and shot.
7 women from idi ice-were shot in Prague as well. The others,
the remaining 195 were deported to the Ravensbriick concentration
camp: 42 died from ill-treatment, 7 were gassed and 3 are missing.
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4 of these'women were taken from Lidice to a. maternity home in
Prague, their newly born children murdered and the mothers then
sent to Ravensbriick.
The children of Lidice were taken from their mothers a few days
after the destruction of the village. 90 were sent to Lodi in Poland
and from there to Gneisenau concentration camp (in the so-called