Leskovice is a municipality and village in
Pelhřimov District in the
Vysočina Region of the
Czech Republic. It has about 100 inhabitants.
Leskovice lies approximately west of
Pelhřimov, west of
Jihlava, and south-east of
Prague.
History
The first written mention of Leskovice is from 1379. In 1945, the mass murder of 25 Czech civilians known as the
Leskovice massacre
The Leskovice massacre was the mass murder of twenty-five Czech civilians in May 1945 by Waffen-SS troops on the orders of Nazi officer Walter Hauck inside the village of Leskovice during the World War II.
Incident
On 5 May 1945, Czech Resistan ...
took place here.
References
Villages in Pelhřimov District
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