In The Shadow of Memory
In 1942, Nazi Germany destroyed an innocent Czech village—Lidice—to avenge the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. A mastermind of Nazi genocide,Heydrich was the highest ranking Nazi successfully attacked during the war. All 192 men of the town were murdered, all women sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp, 16 children survived, 82 were gassed. German soldiers blew up all the buildings and altered the flow of a river so that the landscape would never look the same. Lidice became a symbol of Nazi barbarism.
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In The Shadow of Memory
A one-hour documentary film about on-going struggles of children and grandchildren to come to grips with Nazi horrors suffered by their elders. The film focuses on Jerri Zbiral, the daughter of a survivor of the Nazi destruction of the Catholic village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. Even though Jerri...
