The aim of the programme of cultural events was to give a platform to the young people of the occupied states of Yugoslavia, Czecho-Slovakia, Greece, and Poland, allowing them to explore, debate, fashion and creatively present the culture and heritage of their respective homelands to British audiences.
Category: Art commemorating Lidice
Lidice and International Commemorations – San JeronimoLidice and International Commemorations – San Jeronimo
“Women from remote Lidice, widows from concentration camps who know not where their children are, our home is your home, too. We shall never forget you.”
A British LidiceA British Lidice
In August 1942, having received consent from the President of the Mineworkers’ Federation of Great Britain, Will Lawther, at their Conference in July, the British Crown Film Unit began scanning the country’s coalfield looking for a location to create a propaganda film based on the Lidice atrocity. Aspiring producer, Humphrey
Alan Bush, the Workers’ Music Association & LidiceAlan Bush, the Workers’ Music Association & Lidice
Following Dr Barnett Stross and the British Lidice Shall Live delegation in their pilgrimage to Lidice in 1947 were eminent composer and conductor Alan Bush and his Workers’ Music Association (WMA) Singers. Bush had established the WMA in 1936, and they were visiting Czechoslovakia to participate in the First International Youth Festival
The Far Off Village – Mazo de la RocheThe Far Off Village – Mazo de la Roche
We had not heard your name, Lidice,Till your heart’s blood was shed ;You had no fame to reach us,Till your boys and girls were dead. There is no marriage in Lidice,There is no love or birth,There is no drilling in the mines,No ploughing of the earth. But now we know
Remember Lidice – John HooksRemember Lidice – John Hooks
Remember Lidice Lidice! Your streets are silent now;You little town—whose crime was mercy-Lie beneath the sun,And only wisps of smoke arise to crownThe blackened desolation of the Hun.The torch and gun are thru,And never more shall children’s laughter ringIn simple mirth ;Yet from your dying embers shall soar again,A spark
The Englishman – Richard ChurchThe Englishman – Richard Church
Wake! Wake, my brother, touch the wall,Touch the hard world, break from your sleep.Outside your dream the ominous footsteps fall.Outside your door the victims weep.The monster prowls ; I hear it pauseOn England’s threshold, I hear its clawsSplinter the eastern cliff. I see our neighbours’ households ! One by oneThe
Katharine Hepburn, Victory Theater & LidiceKatharine Hepburn, Victory Theater & Lidice
Like the Writers’ War Board, the United States Office of War Information (OWI) sponsored and provided the concept for the highly popular Victory Theater with the help of CBS and legendary film-maker Cecil B. DeMille. From June the 7th, 1942, supported by celebrities from the world of stage and screen,
Lidice Lives and the Writers’ War BoardLidice Lives and the Writers’ War Board
The idea for a production line of professional writers, who would create high-quality propaganda to ensure America’s war effort remained resilient during the years of conflict ahead was initially proposed by Secretary of the Treasury, Henry Morgenthau Jr., who agreed to an initiative to seek civilian writers to help promote the
The Memorial to Child Victims of WarThe Memorial to Child Victims of War
Marie Uchytilová-Kučová was born in Kralovice, Czechoslovakia, on the 17th of January, 1924. The daughter of a clerk, from 1945 to 1950 she studied sculpture under Otakar Španiel at the Prague Academy of Fine Arts. In 1956 she won a public competition to design the Czechoslovak one crown coin, secretly basing the figure of a