A weekend away in the wonderful city of Prague amongst the usual touristy visits a quick trip to the Czech Resistance Museum. The Museum tells the story of the brave Czech paratroopers who dropped into their homeland to support the resistance effort and under Operation Anthropoid assassinate SS Obergrupenfuhrer Reinhard Heydrich.
Jan Kubis and Josef Gabcik escaped to the church of Saint Cyril and Methodius which now housed the museum, hiding out in the crypt under the Cathedral for 20 days with five more paratroopers they later died in a battle with over 700 German Troops.
The memorial on the outside of the church and the only natural light afforded to the paratroopers.
Well worth a visit if you are in the city, a little off the beaten track but well worth seeking it out, we went on a Sunday morning which was rather sobering to hear hymns being sung in the church above the crypt. I should add it's free to enter which was rather surprising, well worth a donation if you can afford it.
After that a rather leisurely walk to the Vytopna restaurant a wonderful steakhouse which houses a 400m miniature railway which runs around the entire restaurant, which delivers your food and drinks to your station stop.... I could get into model railways if this was the regular gathering.
Nice off the beaten track sort of place to visit Stu - I am guessing most people (even including younger Czech's) don't know the history of the assassination of Heydrich or the story of the men behind it.
ReplyDeleteI suspect your right, great people with an interesting history over the past 80 years.
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Stu
A fitting tribute to all those involved. We watched the Anthropoid film a few years ago, which we thought was good. A city to visit one day but apparently Brno is meant to be nice too and much less touristy.
ReplyDeleteThe advantage of the kids getting that little bit older. Now for the next visit with a little bit of military history thrown in :-)
DeleteWhat a great place to visit. Great that the Czech's still pay tribute to the men involved.
ReplyDeleteVery true lots to see and do, plenty of beer and the occasional historical site.
DeleteNice trip Stu I have watched that film a couple of times so interesting to see it for real 👍
ReplyDeleteWell worth a visit if you can sneak it in.
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