On the morning of June 10, 1942, Lidice was surrounded and a total of 173 men over the age of 15 were gathered in the garden of the local farm. Here the men were gradually executed and buried in a mass grave. The women and their children were taken to Kladno and 3 days later the mothers and children were separated. The Germans transported a total of 203 Lidice women to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, from where 143 of them returned in 1945. Their 88 children were taken to Łódź and subsequently murdered in gas trucks in Chelmno. Of the children brought to the Reich after the war, only nine were found. A total of 17 children returned to Lidice. All the buildings of the village, including the church, were built on 10.6.1942. There was no evidence that they once existed in the territory of the former Lidice.
At the turn of the 40s and 50s of the 20th century, a new Lidice was built in the immediate vicinity of the exterminated village by the decision of the government and at the expense of the state. In the place where the old Lidice stood, a memorial with a museum was established, where the history of Lidice was mapped, especially its end in 1942, but also the fate of its abducted inhabitants.
Since 1995, Lidice has been a national cultural monument.
