On July 2, 1942, most of the children from Lidice, a small village in what was then Czechoslovakia, were handed over to the Gestapo office.

These 82 children have then transported to an extermination camp 70 km away. As soon as they arrived, they were gassed to death. This remarkable sculpture by Marie Uchytilová commemorates this massacre.

A set of bronze sculptures in honor of the deceased children. Its construction was decided in 1969. As a symbol of an imaginary tomb for the 13 million most innocent victims of the war, the children chose as a model 82 Lidice children suffocated in the gas rooms of Chelmno.

It took 20 years to make this sculpture as it used ancient documents to reproduce the missing children's faces and represent them according to their exact size.

The Lost Children of the Lidice Massacre