Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. By 1942, the Nazis had already made it clear that they were not the kind of people ...

A life-sized bronze statue includes 82 children, all victims of the attack on Lidice, Czech Republic in 1942. A village in the Czech Republic was the site of a brutal massacre during World War II. On ...

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 ...

A memorable place name of World War II turned up in the news again. The town was Lidice, which Hitler chose at random to avenge the assassination by Czech patriots of Reinhard (“the Hangman”) Heydrich ...

A group of Czechoslovakian Jews now living in Britain today decided to raise funds to establish a settlement in Palestine named Lidice, after the Czech town which was completely destroyed by the Nazis ...

The visit – including the video that served as document No.379 at the Nuremberg Trials, the wall exhibits, a visitors’ center, a small bookshop, and the imposing children’s memorial – took us no ...

Hitler has forced Europe to realize that an attack on one faith or religion is an attack upon all, Leslie Hore-Belisha, former Secretary for War, declared here addressing a meeting to launch the ...