Remembering Lidice / 1 November
Film by Swoon as a remembrance piece for Lidice, with a poem written and read by Bernard Dewulf.
Words & voice: Bernard Dewulf
Concept, camera, editing, treats & music: Swoon
Translation: Ramona Lofton (Sapphire)
Recording poem: M. Mechner, Literatur WERKstatt Berlin, 2001.
(for lyrikline.org/)
Footage:' Lidice Lives' (James Truswell)
youtube.com/watch?v=j-V-wUkgeQw
Lidice was a village in the Czech Republic just northwest of Prague which, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942 On 10 June 1942, all 173 men over 16 years of age from the village were murdered, another 11 men who were not in the village were arrested and murdered soon afterwards along with several others already under arrest. Several hundred women and over 100 children were deported to concentration camps; a few children considered racially suitable for Germanisation were handed over to SS families and the rest were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were gassed to death.
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Words & voice: Bernard Dewulf
Concept, camera, editing, treats & music: Swoon
Translation: Ramona Lofton (Sapphire)
Recording poem: M. Mechner, Literatur WERKstatt Berlin, 2001.
(for lyrikline.org/)
Footage:' Lidice Lives' (James Truswell)
youtube.com/watch?v=j-V-wUkgeQw
Lidice was a village in the Czech Republic just northwest of Prague which, as part of the Nazi Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, was on orders from Adolf Hitler and Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler, completely destroyed by German forces in reprisal for the assassination of Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich in the late spring of 1942 On 10 June 1942, all 173 men over 16 years of age from the village were murdered, another 11 men who were not in the village were arrested and murdered soon afterwards along with several others already under arrest. Several hundred women and over 100 children were deported to concentration camps; a few children considered racially suitable for Germanisation were handed over to SS families and the rest were sent to the Chełmno extermination camp where they were gassed to death.
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