For centuries Lidice was just a small ordinary agricultural village, nothing really happened much. My family and I ran a small shop in the center of town. I am a husband and a father 3 beautiful children, Adula (15), Paula (10), and Bazil (7). They helped around the shop filling shelves with more bread and sweeping the floors. My wife would sell the bread and I would bake it. We were a great team. Every morning before the kids would go to school I would say a prayer “May it be Your will, G-d, our G-d and the G-d of our fathers, that You should lead us in peace and direct …show more content…
I was confused and asked my neighbor what was going on, He replied to me his face pale but smiling; Heydrich is wounded, 2 boys blew up his car with a grenade attack I was happy but at the same side scared, One side of me thought we fought back, they can’t take control of us, but the other side made me think that there were going to be consequences for the …show more content…
German troops started entering Lidice by the hundreds, we had never seen this before. The Gestapo started ransacking our house and looking for anything suspicious. Then they just left, nobody said anything. everyone was confused, Why would they just leave like that? If only i had known that they didn't leave they were only waiting. (after the funeral of Heindrich Hitler ordered Karl Frank that the small community lidice would be wiped out as punishment) On June 9th we were all sleeping in our bedrooms when we were woken up by the sound of trucks driving in, german soldiers broke into the house and ordered us to go to the village square. My youngest Bazil was crying and i knew something was terribly wrong. They told me to go to one side of the square while my children and my wife had to go to the other side, i was reluctant and screaming, they couldn't do this! My oldest daughter was screaming “dad, dad” but i couldn't do anything, they were pushing me farther away and i lost sight of them. They locked us into Horak farm. I knew it was over the second they broke me away from my family. My fingers were clenching and i was so angry i felt helpless. I knew i was going to be the first to die because i am jewish. I tried to hide it as best as i could when the soldiers always came into town but i knew they would find out somehow. When the more german soldiers started to watch us i saw some of the men whispering to each other. I stared at one of the