ON a visit I made to my native Czechoslovakia shortly before the recent Communist coup, I drove fifteen miles northwest of Prague one day to the little green valley, in the softly rolling hills of ...

In 1947, 8-year-old Václav Zelenka returned to the Czech village of Lidice as the last of the town’s lost children. Five years earlier, he and the rest of Lidice’s 503 residents had been viciously ...

For more than three-quarters of a century, the story of Lidice has stood as haunting testimony of Czech suffering and victimhood at the hands of cruel Nazi occupiers. The village, 16 miles from Prague ...

Legacy of Czech town burned to the ground in 1942 as retaliation against the assassination of Nazi "protector" Reinhard Heydrich is revisited in "The Second Life of Lidice." Footage from Humphrey ...

The Czech village of Levzsaky, 70 miles southeast of Prague, joined martyred Lidice last week. Soldiers sorted out the children among its 120 inhabitants, murdered all the men & women, burned the ...

The villages, Lidice in former Czechoslovakia and Deir Yassin in Palestine are harrowing examples of ethnic cleansing and collective punishment perpetrated on the innocent by Nazis and Israelis ...