Welcome to Daily TWiP, your daily dose of all the holidays and history we couldn’t cram into The Week in Preview. By 1942, the Nazis had already made it clear that they were not the kind of people ...

A group of Czechoslovakian Jews now living in Britain today decided to raise funds to establish a settlement in Palestine named Lidice, after the Czech town which was completely destroyed by the Nazis ...

A memorable place name of World War II turned up in the news again. The town was Lidice, which Hitler chose at random to avenge the assassination by Czech patriots of Reinhard (“the Hangman”) Heydrich ...

Lidice, Czechoslovakia, is now a wheat field dotted with red poppies. People from the neighboring villages have cleared a 25-foot-square plot in the center of the field, and erected a small crucifix ...

Image caption, Nicola Winstanley of Dashyline, which has led the project, said the initials of 3,000 people had been included on the sculpture A sculpture to commemorate the role played by miners in ...