Day 8 - Lidice/Terezin
Lidice is nothing important if you know nothing about WWII or the holocaust. To us on the tour, we know that it is a city that was destroyed in retaliation for the assassination of Rudolph Heydrich. Basically all of the city’s men were killed, and the women and children were sent to concentration or extermination camps. The city was completely razed so that all that now remains are a couple foundations. Out of all the memorials so far, this one touched me the most. I think it was the monument to the children that were killed hit the deepest. It is really difficult to put into words the things I have seen, I hope a new light is shed upon WWII and especially the holocaust.
We also visited Terezinstadt, which was a camp for political prisoners as well as Jews. While this was not specifically an extermination camp, like all of the others, thousands of people perished there.
This was all on our way out of Prague to Chemnitz, Germany.