SVU News № 1/2018 8 The 29th SVU World Congress | Prague, July 10–12, 2018 Marking the Sixty Years of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences, commemorating the Centennial of the First Czechoslovak Republic and celebrating 100 YEARS OF CZECH-AMERICAN FRIENDSHIP under the auspices of the President of The Czech Academy of Sciences organized by SVU in collaboration with the SVU Praha Chapter an. [...] It is a tale about the total destruction of the small Czech town of Lidice in retribution for the assassination of the head of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia by Czech partisans in 1942. [...] The book describes the investigation that leads the Gestapo to Lidice, the destruction of the town, the interrogation of its women and children, and the forced separation of mothers from their infants, sons from their mothers, friends from friends. [...] embassies in Prague and Bratislava as part of the celebrations of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the former republic of Czechoslovakia, and of U. [...] This event was a part of a series commemorating the 100th-year anniversary of the creation of Czechoslovakia in 1918 and the contribution BBLA and Czechs and Slovaks in New York made.
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