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The Operation Anthropoid Memorial (Czech: Památník Operace Anthropoid) is a monument in Libeň, Prague that commemorates Operation Anthropoid, an ambush on senior Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich by Czechoslovakian partisans on 27 May 1942 which resulted in his death one week later.
Nov 28, 2023 · The Operation Anthropoid Memorial is in a district of Prague called Liben near the road intersection at Vychovatelna Street. It commemorates the Czechoslovak parachutists who carried out the assassination of the acting Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich on May 27, 1942, under the codename “Operation Anthropoid.”.
The soldiers of Operation Anthropoid, their helpers and the operation itself were memorialized in the Czech Republic and abroad. The oldest memorial is a plaque on the Cathedral of Saints Cyril and Methodius in Resslova Street, Prague.
The World War II heroes were targeted by the Nazis because they had assassinated high-ranking official Reinhard Heydrich as the patriots carried out Operation Anthropoid, one of the most significant acts of resistance in Czechoslovak history.
This museum tells the story of brave Czech paratroopers who killed SS-Obergrupenführer Reinhard Heydrich in the Operation Anthropoid. Jan Kubiš and Josef Gabčík escaped to this church and the crypt under the church together with five more paratroopers and 20 days later they died here in battle against 700 Nazi soldiers.
Nov 29, 2015 · Operation Anthropoid Memorial was erected on May 27th 2008, in Prague’s Kobilysy district to honour the memory of WW2 soldiers from Czechoslovakia’s army-in-exile who laid down their lives and managed to assassinate top German leader Reinhard Heydrich.