 The piece quotes from the Czech "St Wenceslas Chorale" and in the climax of the piece, the opening notes (dot-dot-dot-dash = "V" in Morse code) of Beethoven's 5th Symphony.Women from Lidice who survived imprisonment at Ravensbrück returned after the Second World War and were rehoused in the new village of Lidice that was built overlooking the original site.The first part of the new village was completed in 1949.