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| Photo with "our" sign while we wait for the rest of the group. |
There's nothing like seeing a big welcome sign to feel our hosts' happiness at our arrival. Yes, we are now in Prague and ready for another new chapter of our travel seminar.
We stopped at Lidice, Czechia en route from Nuremberg to see the Lidice massacre memorial and museum. With less than 500 people in population, on June 10, 1942 Hitler's forces liquidated the entire town, killed all males aged 15+, moved all females aged 16+ to Ravensbruck, and the 90 children who lived in the town were either taken to re-education centers to learn to be Germans or were adopted by SS families. Only 17 of those children survived.
The loss of lives and town was in retribution for the death of Reinhard "the hangman" Heydrich, an SS deputy leader who died after the car he was driving in was destroyed by a homemade explosive. Hitler decided to set an example not to attack his men.
Once again our class considers the Nazi's choice to kill so many people, 500 for one, and destroy a whole town's infrastructure too. Brutal, senseless, irrational.
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memorial to the lost children
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| memorial to the mothers |
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mass grave of the town men who died by being shot by SS men
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After we concluded our visit to Lidice, we continued our journey to Prague. Our evening walk to the Old Town included a visit to the famous astronomical clock. After all, we have to get our steps in and what a lovely destination, too! We are averaging around 15,000 steps per day; despite today's five-hour drive we still got more than 12,000 steps in.
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we missed the performance at the top of the hour, but it's still a beautiful artifact
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| Prague at night |
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| St Nicholas Church |
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