She was only 16 at that time. The men of Lidice – those aged 15 and up and – were rounded up and killed. "I post hereunder the list of the 82 children from the Czech village Lidice, who were murdered in the Gas Vans of Chelmno, as part of a collective punishment of the Nazis to the assault of Reinhard Heydrich on May 27, 1942. Her mother was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, 50m (80km) north of Berlin, and Ms Supikova was put on a train to Lodz in Poland with other children. However, when the war had ended, instead of going home to Lidice to celebrate, she arrived only to mourn. US election 2020 polls: Who is ahead - Trump or Biden? Video, The child bride whose divorce Queen Victoria approved, The settlersâ billionaire backer.
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According to Jaroslava, his funeral was set on the 4th of June, 1942.
Entries include surname, forename and year of birth. The Museum's commemoration ceremony, including remarks by the German VideoThe child bride whose divorce Queen Victoria approved, In pictures: Ash covers Ecuador farming land, Jackie Stallone, mother to actor Sylvester, dies, The settlersâ billionaire backer. But you’ve never heard of him, right? In 1946, she was reported to the Czech authorities by her adoptive family and returned to Czechoslovakia in July of the same year, to be re-united with her mother. "We had to have a translator from Lidice who helped us to talk and my mother told me that she always believed I had lived [through the war] and that she would see me again.". However, when her birth records were checked revealing that she was already 16, she was sent on with the women into the concentration camp.
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Gulczynski, Janusz. Ms Supikova was one of just seven children out of 89 that survived the massacre, which she said was because she "fitted the German conditions". TTY: 202.488.0406.