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The reminiscences of Jaroslava Skleničková cover the life history of one of the people born in Lidice whose fate was touched in a very cruel manner by the wiping out of the village. The Nazis carried out this massacre as a barbaric act of revenge against a quite innocent and basically selected-by-chance group of people. In June 1942, Mrs Skleničková was 16 years old, and without realizing it, she had double “good luck”. If she had been born a boy, the Nazis would have murdered her along with the other men of Lidice, and if she had been born not quite three months later, she would not have been a woman according to the Nazi machinery, but a child and in that case, there would have been little chance of her outliving the Nazi “special treatment.”
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If I had been a boy, I would have been shot..., Jaroslava Skleničková
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- Released
- 2010
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- Title
- If I had been a boy, I would have been shot...
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jaroslava Skleničková
- Publisher
- Vega-L
- Released
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 182
- ISBN10
- 8087275195
- ISBN13
- 9788087275191
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Women, Military History, World War II, Holocaust, Nazism, Concentration camps, Human Fates, Lidice
- Rating
- 4.75 out of 5
- Description
- The reminiscences of Jaroslava Skleničková cover the life history of one of the people born in Lidice whose fate was touched in a very cruel manner by the wiping out of the village. The Nazis carried out this massacre as a barbaric act of revenge against a quite innocent and basically selected-by-chance group of people. In June 1942, Mrs Skleničková was 16 years old, and without realizing it, she had double “good luck”. If she had been born a boy, the Nazis would have murdered her along with the other men of Lidice, and if she had been born not quite three months later, she would not have been a woman according to the Nazi machinery, but a child and in that case, there would have been little chance of her outliving the Nazi “special treatment.”