Lidice Lives 81🌹🇬🇧🇨🇿

The University of Manchester @OfficialUoM has created fully-funded scholarships for 20 students who are fleeing war and persecution, with people now able to apply to start studying in September.
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Six years ago today @cheryl_gerrard & @alanjgerrard returned to #StokeonTrent from #Lidice with a "Messenger of Hope" - a pear tree sapling. Organised by #AntonínNešpor it was a gift from the residents of Lidice, a statement of fraternity, a symbol of peace @MattFieldUK @BBCWorld

Lidice vnímám nejen jako symbol nevinných obětí druhé světové války, ale i novodobých konfliktů. Jejich vypálení si připomínáme, abychom uctili památku všech, kteří přišli o život v boji proti zlu. Za pamětními deskami stojí příběhy, které se mohou opakovat, pokud to připustíme.

Čest památce Lidic, české vesnice, kterou před 81 lety vyhladili nacisté. Odkaz Lidic po celém světě žije dál. Nikdy nezapomeneme. @LidiceLives

81 years ago today, on 10th June 1942, the Nazis wiped out the Czech village of Lidice as a retaliation for the assassination of governor Reinhard Heydrich. #NeverForget #WeRemeber #Lidice #LidiceShallLive 🕯️ @LidiceLives @LidiceMemorial

On 3 June 1942 a love letter was handed to the #Gestapo which would have devastating consequences for the Czech people. It gave #KarlFrank an excuse to create a narrative linking the village of #Lidice to the murder of #Heydrich @SoTCityCouncil @UKinCR lidicelives.org/2022/06/01/a-s…

On #June1st #InternationalChildrensDay we remember the children of #Lidice, and countless others prior and since, who've been victims of atrocities @LidiceLives @UKinCR @SoTCityCouncil @Pamatnik_Lidice

Significant photo in relation to the #LidiceShallLive movement of #StokeOnTrent, conceived in the old Hanley Museum by #DrBarnettStross at an exhibition of Czechoslovak - Soviet photography on June 13th 1942 & launched a few months later at the Victoria Hall on Sept 6th @UKinCR

Coventry's #LidiceShallLive campaign ended on Saturday 18th March 1944, with a flag day and a dance in the evening at Westfield House; music provided by the Czech Army Dance Band, who played at Tile Hill Workers' Hostel, Duggins Lane, the following night @UKinCR @CoventryUpdates

Construction work on the #Lidice Rose Garden started on 14th March 1955. Brainchild of Stoke-on-Trent MP, Dr #BarnettStross, leader of the #LidiceShallLive movement, it was inaugurated on 19th June in the presence of a massive crowd @SoTCityCouncil @LidiceLives @UKinCR @UKandEU

A week of events organised by a newly formed Coventry Lidice Shall Live committee, set out to raise £2,000 towards the construction of a new #Lidice. It was launched on the afternoon of Sunday 12th March 1944 with a service held at the City’s bombed-out Cathedral @coventrycc

Dr Stross meeting Czech President-in-exile Edvard Benes in Hanley, prior to the launch of the Lidice Shall Live movement at the Victoria Hall, Sunday 6th September 1942. Source: The Evening Sentinel @Sotlive @LidiceLives @CzechLondon @UKinCR @Czech_British @SoTCityCouncil

Early February 1943 saw the release on @HeinemannPub @ 7s 6p of the #Lidice themed #TheDeadLookOn by #GeraldKersch. Its dedication ran, "To the murdered men of Lidice... and to their women and children...To the fighting spirit of all those who live and hope for freedom."

On Valentine's Day 1964 Dr Barnett Stross received a Knighthood for Services to The Arts, which was welcomed throughout the nation & North Staffs in particular His services being non political meant he could influence both Labour & Conservative colleagues alike @SoTCityCouncil

1962 Czechoslovak stamp for 20th anniversary of Nazi destruction of Lidice, 9-10 June 1942 The now standard motifs of grieving parent, with child & rose representing new life & hope. The British @LidiceLives group created a rose garden @LidiceMemorial lidice-memorial.cz/en/memorial/th…

🕯️When the Czech village of Lidice was destroyed by the Nazis in 1942 the ordinary people of Stoke-on-Trent opposed Hitler's declaration that 'Lidice Shall Die' 💐The #LidiceShallLive campaign raised more than £1m in today's money ➡️stoke.gov.uk/Lidice @LidiceLives

Holocaust Memorial Day, when we consider the potential callousness of human behaviour, if we are not forever vigilant, presents an opportunity to reflect on Stoke-on-Trent's friendship with Lidice over the last decade or so. lidicelives.org/2023/01/28/a-t…

“The British people did not betray you, but would have gone to war on your behalf. It is not likely that the people of these islands will ever again allow any men to say that what happens in a far-off country to a free people is no concern of theirs.” lidicelives.org/2023/01/22/dr-…

Formal negotiations on the renouncement of the Munich Agreement began at the end of January 1942. At a luncheon given by Anthony Eden on January the 21st, Dr Beneš was asked to prepare a proposal addressing the consequences of the Munich Conference lidicelives.org/2023/01/22/ren…