On July 2, 1942, most of the children of lidice, a small village in what was then czechoslovakia, were handed over to the office of the gestapo of łódź. These 82 children were then transported to the extermination camp of chelmno, 70 kilometers from there. Once they arrived on site, they were gassed to death. This remarkable sculpture by Marie Uchytilová commemorates this massacre. A group of Bronze Sculptures, paying tribute to the children who perished. His building was decided in 1969 by the sculptor woman, Marie Uchytilova. As a symbol of an imaginary tomb of the 13 million most innocent victims of the war - children, she chose for model, 82 children of lidice asphyxiated in the gas rooms of chelmno. She put 20 years to make this beautiful sculpture because she used the documents of time in order to reproduce at the closest to the real the face of missing children and represented them according to their exact size.
