This 1 8 Lidice Adolf Hitler p miiF ii m" T 1 ' 1 g . f ' -v " " ''"! ! " -l t ; - - " X'? v. . I r f ' -o t t ' ... ; I - Mw :r ) 1 vr, ;f : ' ; ! f l . j - ' . 'I This, Adolf Hitler, is Lidice. Ton thought yon had wiped out the little Czech village, killed its male citizens, sent its women and children to concentration camps? Look. Lidice's citizens, dressed in the Czech costumes of their homeland, are on parade. Lidice lives again, in Illinois. The Czecho-Americans of what used t be Stern Park Gardens, 111, rechristened their town to commemorate the martyred Bohemian village Nazis wiped oat. Benes Awards War Cross To Town Nazis Wiped Out London, July 14 IP) President Eduard Benes of the Czech provisional government awarded the Czecho-Slovak War Cross today to Lidice, the vulage wiped out by the Germans June 10 on the ground that the population harbored the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich. Czech officials estimated that between 350 and 400 men were slain in the community of 1,200 persons, the women placed in concentration camps and the children sent to institutions. 1 "The population of Lidice have been faithful unto death to our nation and state and have become vic tims of a barbarous foe who tried to destroy the soul and body of our nations. Benes said. "In the' eyes of the entire world Lidice is a symbol of the Czech will for freedom and the eloquent pro test of all who fell on the home front against the Nazi invader and oppressor of the free nations of Eu rope. "For this reason I award Lidice the Czecho-Slovak War Cross." The formal ceremony of the award was held, in the Czech provi sional government's chancellery. A Czech airman who attended lost five close relatives in Lidice.
