On July 1942, 2, most of the children of Lidice, a small village in what was then Czechoslovakia, were handed over to the gestapo office of the gestapo.
These 82 children were then transported to the of extermination camp 70 kilometers away. Once they arrived, they were gassed to death. This remarkable sculpture by Marie Uchytilová commemorates this massacre.
A group of Bronze Sculptures, paying tribute to the children who died. Its construction was decided in 1969 by the woman sculptor, Marie Uchytilova. As a symbol of an imaginary tomb of the 13 million most innocent victims of the war - children, she chose as model, 82 children of lidice asphyxiated in the gas rooms of chelmno.
She took 20 years to make this beautiful sculpture because she used the vintage documents to reproduce the faces of the missing children and to represent them according to their exact size.
On this day, 6 May 1919, Alejandro Finisterre, the Spanish anarchist poet and inventor of table football or “foosball” was born. His political idealism seemed to be realised with the outbreak of the Spanish revolution in 1936. However his house was bombed by nationalist forces and he was severely injured. Seeing many injured children who are unable to play football with their friends, he built a table out of pine and attached players to steel bars - inventing modern table football. After the war he had to flee the Franco regime to France, and was imprisoned for four years in Morocco before heading to the Americas. More info in our short biography of him here: https://ift.tt/2whqIgX
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