The Children From Lidice I would like to tell you a story about a Czech sculptor Marie Uchytilova. She spent 20 years to make a sculptural group of 88 childern from Lidice. Lidice was a village, that

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The Children From Lidice I would like to tell you a story about a Czech sculptor Marie Uchytilova. She spent 20 years to make a sculptural group of 88 childern from Lidice. Lidice was a village, that was burn down during the Second World War. Men were shoot dead, women and children were transported to concentration camps. 88 children were killed. Marie Uchytilova decided to make a sculptural group for the memory of them. She began in 1969. She had no support of the Czech goverment. She got no money for her work. She procured photos of the children and she formed every sculptur by real child. Every one has its own face. There are babies, little boys and girls, teenageres. It is very impressive and sad. Marie made 88 forms of gypsum but she had no money to make sculpturs by bronze. So she used her life savings and made first 4 sculpturs. Unfortunately, she died on the 16th of November 1989 – one day before the Velvet Revolution. She couldn‘t finish her work. She never saw the result of her twenty-years hard work. But the story has a happy end. Marie’s husband was continuing in her work and the sculpur group was done. In 2000 were all 88 bronze children placed to Lidice.That story impresses me very much.

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I would like to tell you a story about the Czech sculptor, Marie Uchytilova. She spent 20 years making a sculpture of a group of 88 children from Lidice. Lidice was a village, that was burnt down during the Second World War.

The men were shot dead, and the women and children were transported to concentration camps. 88 of those children were killed.

Marie Uchytilova decided to make a sculptural group for the memory of them.

She began in 1969. She did not have the support of the Czech government. She recieved no money for her work. She procured photos of the children and she formed every sculpture by using the real child's face. Each has its own face.

There are babies, little boys and girls, even teenagers. It is both impressive and tragic. Marie made 88 forms of gypsum but she had no money to make the sculptures using bronze. So she used her life savings and made the first 4 sculptures.

Unfortunately, she died on the 16th of November 1989 – one day before the Velvet Revolution. She couldn‘t finish her work. She never saw the result of her twenty-years of hard work.

But the story has a happy ending. Marie’s husband continued her work and the group of sculptures was completed. In the year 2000 all 88 bronze children were placed in Lidice.

This story has had a great impression on me.

The Children From Lidice

I would like to tell you a story about a Czech sculptor Marie Uchytilova. She spent 20 years making a sculptural group of 88 children from Lidice. Lidice was a village that was burned down during the Second World War. Men were shot dead and women and children were transported to concentration camps. 88 children were killed.
Marie Uchytilova decided to make a sculptural group for the in memory of them. She began in 1969. She had no support of from the Czech government. She got no money for her work. She procured photos of the children and she formed every sculpture after a real child. Every one has its own face. There are babies, little boys and girls, and teenagers. It is very impressive and sad.
Marie made 88 forms of gypsum but she had no money to make sculptures of bronze. So she used her life's savings and made 4 sculptures at first. Unfortunately, she died on the 16th of November 1989 – one day before the Velvet Revolution. She couldn‘t finish her work. She never saw the result of her twenty-years hard work. But the story has a happy ending. Marie’s husband continued her work and the sculpture group was done. In 2000 all 88 bronze children were placed to in Lidice. That story impresses me very much.

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