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Lidice - A Light Across the Sea: Film Screening
16 October 2013 6:30pm Westminster Theatre, Chancellor's Building
Lidice - A Light Across the Sea
In 1942 The Nazis destroyed Lidice –a small village in the Czech Republic. All 173 men in the village were executed and the women and children sent off to concentration camps. The village was burned to the ground. The people of Lidice had done nothing to deserve this terrible fate.
In Stoke-on-Trent local councillor Barnett Stross was deeply affected by the news, he vowed to re build Lidice and on the 6th September 1942 at a packed Victoria Hall in Hanley the Lidice Shall Live movement was born. The name of the movement was a direct response to Hitler’s proclamation that ‘Lidice Shall Die’. Stross called on local miners to donate a day’s salary to the campaign to re-build Lidice and £37,000 was raised, an incredible amount when you consider that Britain was at war and rationing in place across the country. He said that ‘The miner’s lamp dispels the shadows on the coalface. It can also send a ray of light across the sea to those who struggle in darkness’.
Lidice – A Light Across The Sea is a documentary film project produced by Inspired Film and Video and the Stoke City Community Trust.
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