 Horák and his family returned to Britain and the RAF; he died in a flying accident in December 1948.A sculpture from the 1990s by Marie Uchytilová, overlooks the site of the old village of Lidice.Entitled "The Memorial to the Children Victims of the War" it comprises 82 bronze statues of children (42 girls and 40 boys) aged 1 to 16, to honour the children who were murdered at Chełmno in the summer of 1942.