Memorial Tablet in Lidice Place
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Memorial Tablet in Lidice Place
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 1 May 2021
A memorial plinth displaying two tablets, situated in Lidice Place, outside the Lower Precinct. Coventry established a friendship/twinning link with the Czech village of Lidice in 1947, when representatives from Coventry attended the ceremonial laying of the foundation stone of the new village. Old Lidice had been destroyed in 1942, and most of its inhabitants executed, by the Nazi occupying forces. https://www.coventry.gov.uk/twintownsandcities This atrocity was committed in reprisal for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the German governor of occupied Bohemia & Moravia, by a unit of the Czechoslovak army in exile, based in Britain. The Czech soldiers were killed resisting arrest in Prague, and are remembered by a memorial in the Jephson Gardens in Leamington, the town where they had trained. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Reinhard_Heydrich
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