The Memorial to the Children Victims of the War in Lidice, Czech Republic is a bronze sculpture created by Marie Uchytilova. It commemorates a group of 82 children of Lidice who were gassed at Chełmno in the summer of 1942 during the World War Two. Work began on the memorial in 1980, but it was not until 2000, ten years after Uchytilova's death that it was completed by her husband.
History of Lidice
On 10 June 1942 the Nazis killed all 173 adult men and 52 women in Lidice as a reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich. The village was razed, seventeen children who were considered suitable to be "Germanized" were removed, and the remaining women and children, separated, were sent to concentration camps. The children were gassed that summer in mobile vans at Chełmno.