In Britain, the first seeds of a national public response to the tragedy which befell Lidice were sown a mere three days following the atrocity, at an exhibition of artworks organised by the North Staffordshire Branch of the Czecho-Slovak – British Friendship Club at the old Hanley Museum, Pall Mall, Stoke-on-Trent (see
Day: 13 June 2022
Initial Reactions to the Lidice AtrocityInitial Reactions to the Lidice Atrocity
Prague Radio broadcast on the evening of Wednesday the 10th of June 1942 that: “…all men in the village of Lidice, a Czech coal-mining centre, have been shot on suspicion of harbouring the murderers of Heydrich, the women have been deported to a concentration camp and the children sent to