00:00This is a life-size monument to the 82 murdered children.
00:06This sculpture by Mary Jusitilova was created in their memory.
00:11On June 10, 1942, the SS surrounded Lydis.
00:16All males over 16, 172 people, were shot.
00:22The women of Lydis, 172 people, were sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, of
00:29which 60 died in the camp.
00:32Of the children, 105 people.
00:36Only those under one year old and those suitable for Germanization were left.
00:41The rest, 82 people, were exterminated in the death camp near Helmnoe, another six children
00:48died.
00:50All the buildings of the village were burned and razed to the ground.
00:54By the morning of June 11, the village of Lydis was nothing but a bare heap of ashes.
01:00The children died, but their memory will remain in the form of a monument near the village
01:06of Lydis.
01:0782 bronze statues, 40 boys and 42 girls, look at us and remind us of the massacre committed
01:15by the Nazis.
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