English Translation

Mume Zieger Jetn 13.7.42. Sric system stand follte. United States Remembrance ceremony for the Czech village of Lidice From New York it is reported that on Sunday the small village of Stern Park Garden in the state of Illinois was solemnly renamed "Lidice", in memory of the Czech town of Litice (Lidis) in Bohemia, which was destroyed by the Germans in June and whose male residents were all executed. The celebrations in the new Lidice, which is a pre-farzem-built and mainly Czech-occupied town in the area of the industrial towns of Chicago, attracted about 50 000 people. Wen- dell Willkie, the Republican presidential candidate in 1940, represented the American government. In his speech, he said that the Bolk of the purified states had sworn not to forget the act of Lidice: "The lights of the Czech village Lidice are extinguished, but lit a flame that is never to be suffocated." President Roosevelt was read out saying that the name Lidice would always remind the United States that the Germans had not succeeded in destroying the human will to freedom by force.