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<p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">In the morning we all headed of for our day trip to Lidice, we got the 135 bus that stopped just outside our apartment and got of at Namesti Miru. We took the metro to Dejvicka (the A line). The Lidice Buses depart for Lidice at the bus stop across the road from the Diplomat Hotel near Dejvicka Metro.</p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"><em><strong>NOTE: Buses to Kladno don’t stop at Lidice, so make sure you are on the right bus by confirming it with the driver. The bus ride takes about 25 minutes and cost 30kc.</strong></em></p><p style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"></p><p><strong>Entrance fee for Lidice is:</strong></p><ul><li>Adults 80kc. (£1.95)</li><li>Children 15 years old and under 40kc.(£0.97)</li><li>Disabled people 40kc.(0.97)</li><li>People 65 years old and above 40kc.(£0.97)</li><li>Family (2 adults and max 4 children) 140kc.(3.42)</li></ul><p>Lidice was so very interesting and moving as the story of the destruction of the little village was unfolding in the small museum, the whole family enjoyed both the museum and the walk around what was the village of Lidice.</p><p>From 105 of Lidice children only 17 survived. 9 were adopted by German families, the 7 youngest children under the age of 1 were placed into a German children shelter in Prague. One boy died in the shelter. After the tragedy in Lidice 7 children were born to the mothers however only two survived. One boy was born in the concentration camp but was killed right after his birth.</p><p>Out of the 105 children 82 died in Chelmn 6 died in the infantile home 17 returned back home to the Czech Republic.</p>
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The moving day at Lidice.
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