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Ležáky was a village in Czechoslovakia. In 1942, during the German occupation of Czechoslovakia, it was razed to the ground by the Nazis. Ležáky's inhabitants were mainly poor stonemasons and small farmers. The village consisted of eight houses around the mill. The mill was the original base of the village, named after the stream Ležák. Mass murder [edit] In December 1941, some paratroopers were dropped into the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia as part of Operation Anthropoid to assassinate Nazi Governor Reinhard Heydrich. Several people from the village of Ležáky helped them, including by providing a storage place for their radio equipment. After the assassination attempt on Heydrich (May 27, 1942), who died of the consequences of this on June 4, 1942, the German acts of revenge began. On June 10, the village of Lidice was destroyed and the male inhabitants executed. On June 24, more than 500 armed German troops surrounded Ležáky, took all the residents and set fire to the village. In Pardubice, 32 inhabitants (men and women) were shot and cremated in the local crematorium. The thirteen children from Ležáky have been sent to Litzmannstadt (then the German name for the Polish city of Łódź). Two of the children (with Aryan racial characteristics) ended up with German families to be "Germanized" and returned after the war. The remaining children died in the Chełmno extermination camp. They were gassed there along with Lidice's children in the summer of 1942. Before Christmas 1943, the remains of Ležáky were razed to the ground. Unlike Lidice, Ležáky was not rebuilt after the war, only a monument commemorates the tragedy. (source: wikipedia)
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