Children in Prague 6 honored the memory of fallen soldiers PRAGUE 6 | News
On November 11, the whole world remembers the memory of war veterans. It was no different in Prague 6, where children from several kindergartens also came to honor their memory.
“Do the children understand when you explain to them why you actually did this event?”
“Quite in cooperation with the times that are happening, with the war in Ukraine, so probably yes. I think so. We actually explained to each other that there are people in the world who do good and actually fight for us so that we are well, so that we don’t have to be afraid and can live normally,” said Dana Chroustová, director of ZŠ Libocká.
“Who were those veterans?”
“Soldiers who fought to keep Europe and other countries free,” said an educated preschooler from Libocká Kindergarten.
“Children definitely need to be reminded of that history, discuss it with them, discuss it, answer their questions and actively involve them in knowing that we value war veterans and think about them,” added Mariana, Deputy Mayor of Prague 6 Čapková.
Dozens of children, accompanied by teachers, came all the way to Victory Square to the Memorial to Czechoslovak soldiers from the Second World War and also to Technical Street to the Memorial to Paratroopers of the Czechoslovak Army. Preschoolers placed Czech flags and self-made poppies there. And that the children worked with them.
“First we took a stick, we put a crepe on it, we wrapped it, then we tried to make a green crepe from the red crepe, and then we finished this blue one,” described another of the preschool children of the kindergarten.
Veterans Day is celebrated worldwide on November 11 to mark the end of the First World War. Poppy flowers covered the graves of soldiers who died on the Western Front and thus became a symbol of this holiday.