Today is a national holiday in the Czech Republic (Labor Day). We went for a day-trip with the Lustyk family to the site of what once was the village of Ležáky, about 22 miles from our home, in the area of the Czech-Moravian Highlands. Ležáky was a small village which was destroyed by the Germans on 24 June 1942. Here is a link to an article in English concerning what happened: Ležáky.
Large Monument, with inscription in German, English, Czech and Russian:
The text reads:"Here stood the village of Ležáky
razed to the ground by the German fascists
24 June 1942
Defend peace in the name of life"
razed to the ground by the German fascists
24 June 1942
Defend peace in the name of life"
Place where the mill stood on the small creek near the pond (owned by the Švanda family who were members of the Czech Resistance):
Location of some of the other houses in the village, with their monuments (each monument gives the house number/address, as well as the family name of its occupants in 1942):
The little creek "Ležák" from which the village took its name:
2 comments:
after reading the wikipedia article I do wonder why they did not rebuild it? I guess there were not enough who survived to come back and rebuild.
Actually, the only ones who survived were the two children ... and they came back from Germany speaking only German (they had been "adopted" into German families), so had enough problems reintegrating into Czech society. I'm not sure at what point the site was turned into a memorial.
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