Massacres of civilians during World War II
Ležáky: The Nazi Massacre That Claimed 44 Czech Lives After a Betrayal
14m
In June 1942, just weeks after the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi Germany unleashed a wave of terror across the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Following the betrayal of the Czechoslovak resistance network, the small village of Ležáky was erased from the map. Thirty-seven adults were murdered, eleven children were killed in Chełmno, and only two children survived after being selected for Germanization.
Discover the story of the destruction of Ležáky, the role of the Silver A resistance network, the betrayal that exposed it, the massacre that claimed 44 Czech lives, and the justice ultimately faced by the Nazi perpetrators responsible for one of the most infamous reprisals in occupied Czechoslovakia.
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