Czech Books “If I had been a boy, I would have been shot…” Part 4
We continue with the fourth episode of “If I had been a boy, I would have been shot…” by Jaroslava Skleničková, in which she tells the extraordinary story of her life following the destruction of her home village of Lidice at the height of the Nazi occupation in June 1942. David Vaughan gives us the story so far.
Destruction of Lidice
Because she is just over sixteen, and therefore considered an adult, Jaří
has been sent with her older sister, their mother and the other women of
Lidice to the Ravensbrück concentration camp, north of Berlin. All the
women, 184 in total, are confined to one cramped barrack, working and
sleeping in two shifts to save room. Yet the women try to maintain at least
a semblance of the dignity of their old lives in the village. In the camp
they discover that they are not to be joined by their children or their
husbands. Veronika Hyks reads.
