A plaque to the children
Today at 10 a.m. the plaque was unveiled on a wall of the Jeneralka Chateau in No 6 Prague Dejvice District.
It is dedicated to the children whose parents had been arrested during the era of terror called Heydrichiad and shot dead in the Mauthausen Concentration Camp on Oct 24, 1942.
Fourty six children aged from mere two !! to fourteen saw their parents no more. The first of them were brought there in August 1942. Their two German women supervisors barred them from speaking in Czech and even greet each other in their mother tongue. Each older child was tasked to look after an little one - eg Jaroslava Mokra was in charge for Anna Moravcova and Naďa Vykoukova for Alena Vyhnisova. Their internment at Jeneralka was kept under lid by the Germans, but the Czech chef named Kocour smuggled the letters written by the children out and delivered them to the pre-scribed addresses. So grandparents and other relatives of the internees started to gather beyond the fence to spot them at the latest. That reason for all the fourty six children were taken to the Svatoborice Internment Camp nr. Kyjov, South Moravia on April 14, 1944. One of them was a grandniece of the Cz RAF pilot W/O Jaroslav Vyhnis.
If sent an image of the above mentioned plaque by the No 6 Prague Dejvice District, it will be found HERE or in the LINKS Section, MEMORIALS and MUSEUMS and CZECH REP. Subsections.