Stock Photo - Hundreds of people, including foreign guests, attended the event marking the 76th anniversary of the obliteration of the Lezaky village by the Nazis, with PM Andrej Babis's speech emphasising NATO and the EU's importance for the maintenance of peace in Europe, on Sunday, June 24, 2018. The Nazis razed Lezaky to the ground on June 24, 1942, in retaliation for the assassination of high Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovak paratroopers trained in Britain. Two weeks before, the Nazis obliterated another village, Lidice in central Bohemia. On June 24, 1942, the Nazis executed 34 local adult inhabitants, while further seven locals and over 40 aides of the paratroopers were shot dead on June 25 and July 2. Thirteen children were dragged away from Lezaky and 11 of them were killed in a gas chamber in Chelmno. Only two girls, sisters Marie and Jarmila Stulik (on the photo right Jarmila Dolezalova, nee Stulik), aged one and 2.5 at the time, survived, being sent to Germany for upbringing. (CTK Photo/David Tanecek)