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On 10 June 1944, four days after D-Day, the village of Oradour-sur-Glane in Haute-Vienne in Nazi-occupied France was destroyed when 643 civilians, including non-combatant men, women, and children, were massacred by a German Waffen-SS company as collective punishment for Resistance activity in the area including the capture and subsequent execution of a close friend of Waffen-SS ...
The Memorial to the Children Victims of the War (Czech: Pomník dětských obětí války) is a bronze sculpture by Marie Uchytilová in Lidice, Czech Republic. It commemorates a group of 82 children of Lidice who were gassed at Chełmno in the summer of 1942 during the Second World War as a part of the Lidice massacre.
Memorial to the murdered children of Lidice Lidice museum. The Lidice massacre (Czech: Vyhlazení Lidic) was the complete destruction of the village of Lidice in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, which is now a part of the Czech Republic, in June 1942 on orders from Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and acting Reichsprotektor Kurt Daluege, successor to Reinhard Heydrich.
The boy standing by the crematory (1945). This is the original version of the photo, which was flipped horizontally in O'Donnell's reproduction. [1]The Boy Standing by the Crematory (alternatively The Standing Boy of Nagasaki) is a historic photograph taken in Nagasaki, Japan, in October of 1945, shortly after the atomic bombing of that city on August 9, 1945.
The trapped people managed to break down the front doors, but in trying to escape, were killed by machine gun fire. Around 149 people, including 70 [9] (or 75) children under 16 years of age, were killed due to burning, shooting or smoke inhalation. The village was then looted and burned to the ground.
The world watched as the events of 9/11 unfolded, and many iconic images from that day still carry the same wonder and pain 15 years later.
Monument to children killed at Babi Yar, opened in 2001 near the Dorohozhychi metro station. Magen David shaped stone marking the site for a planned Jewish community center, installed in 2001. Construction of the center was suspended, however, because of disputes over its specific location and scope of activities.
The restored village church and World War I memorial in 2008 An elderly survivor at the village on 14 December 1944. On the morning of 12 August 1944, German troops of the 2nd Battalion of SS Panzergrenadier Regiment 35 of 16th SS Panzergrenadier Division Reichsführer-SS, commanded by SS-Hauptsturmführer Anton Galler, entered the mountain village of Sant'Anna di Stazzema.