This excerpt from a United News reel shows a ceremony in newly-named Lidice, Illinois, commemorating the Czech village destroyed by Germans in 1942. For photographs of the destruction of Lidice, see Alan Taylor's World War II retrospective.
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Kasia Cieplak-Mayr von Baldegg is the former executive producer and general manager of Atlantic Studios at The Atlantic.