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. 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. The murder of these children, their faces forever memorialized in Uchytilová’s sculpture, resonates deeply today, as we witness the suffering of children in Gaza, where the cycle...
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