Editing Lidice massacre (section)

===Women and children===
[[File:Maria Doležalová testifies at the RuSHA trial.jpg|thumb|left|Marie Šupíková<!--Q95401481-->, one of the children kidnapped from Lidice, testifies at the [[RuSHA trial]]]]
[[File:Lidice 2009.jpg|thumb|Memorial to the murdered children of Lidice]]

A total of 203 women and 105 children were first taken to Lidice village school, then the nearby town of [[Kladno]] and detained in the grammar school for three days. The children were separated from their mothers and four pregnant women were sent to the same hospital where Heydrich died, forced to undergo abortions and then sent to different concentration camps. On 12 June 1942, 184 women of Lidice were loaded on trucks, driven to Kladno railway station and forced into a special passenger train guarded by an escort. On the morning of 14 June, the train halted on a railway siding at the [[concentration camp]] at [[Ravensbrück]]. The camp authorities tried to keep the Lidice women isolated, but were prevented from doing so by other inmates. The women were forced to work in leather processing, road building, textile and ammunition factories.<ref name="Shilka Publishing">{{cite book|last1=Phillips|first1=Russell|title=A Ray of Light: Reinhard Heydrich, Lidice, and the North Staffordshire Miners|date=2016|publisher=Shilka Publishing|isbn=978-0995513303|url=https://www.shilka.co.uk/heydrich-lidice/|page=69|access-date=2017-01-31|archive-date=2016-08-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160816061552/https://www.shilka.co.uk/heydrich-lidice/|url-status=live}}</ref>

Eighty-eight Lidice children were transported to the area of the former textile factory in Gneisenau Street in [[Łódź]]. Their arrival was announced by a telegram from [[Horst Böhme (SS officer)|Horst Böhme]]'s Prague office which ended with: ''the children are only bringing what they wear. No special care is desirable.''<ref>{{cite web | title=The Massacre at Lidice | website=Holocaust Education & Archive Research Team | date=1999-12-24 | url=http://www.holocaustresearchproject.org/nazioccupation/lidice.html | access-date=2020-07-19}}</ref> The care was minimal and they suffered from a lack of hygiene and from illnesses. By order of the camp management, no medical care was given to the children. Shortly after their arrival in Łódź, officials from the Central Race and Settlement branch chose seven children for [[Kidnapping of children for forced Germanization by Nazi Germany|Germanisation]].<ref name="Lynn H. Nicholas p 254">Lynn H. Nicholas, ''Cruel World: The Children of Europe in the Nazi Web'' p. 254 {{ISBN|0-679-77663-X}}</ref> The few children considered racially suitable for Germanisation were handed over to SS families.<ref name="Kaplan246"/>

The furor over Lidice caused some hesitation over the fate of the remaining children but in late June [[Adolf Eichmann]] ordered the massacre of the remainder of the children.<ref name="Lynn H. Nicholas p 254"/> However, Eichmann was not convicted of this crime at his trial in Jerusalem, as the judges deemed that "... it has not been proven to us beyond reasonable doubt, according to the evidence before us, that they were murdered."<ref>[[Hannah Arendt|Arendt, Hannah]] 1963 "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil" p. 207</ref> On 2 July, all of the remaining 82 Lidice children were handed over to the Łódź [[Gestapo]] office, who sent them to the [[Chełmno extermination camp]] {{convert|70|km|0|abbr=off}} away, where they were gassed to death in [[Magirus]] [[Nazi gas van|gas van]]s.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}} Out of the 105 Lidice children, 82 were murdered in Chełmno, six were murdered in the German [[Lebensborn]] orphanages and 17 returned home.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}