 Only three male inhabitants of the village survived the massacre, two of whom were in the RAF and stationed in England at the time.The only adult man from Lidice actually in Czechoslovakia who survived this atrocity was František Saidl (1887–1961), the former deputy-mayor of Lidice who had been arrested at the end of 1938 because on 19 December 1938 he accidentally killed his son Eduard Saidl.He was imprisoned for four years and had no idea about this massacre.