No. 2352, Rodný dum Jana Kubiše - Dolní Vilémovice, CZ
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N 49° 09.257 E 015° 58.588
33U E 571200 N 5445066
The childhood home of Jan Kubiš
Waymark Code: WM100EE
Location: Kraj Vysočina, Czechia
Date Posted: 02/02/2019
Published By:Groundspeak Regular Member Pidalky
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Jan Kubiš (24 June 1913 – 18 June 1942) was a Czech soldier, one of a team of Czechoslovak British-trained paratroopers sent to eliminate acting Reichsprotektor (Reich-Protector) of Bohemia and Moravia, SS-Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich, in 1942 as part of Operation Anthropoid.

During the Czechoslovak mobilization of 1938, Kubiš served as deputy commander of a platoon in Czechoslovak border fortifications in the Opava area. Following the Munich Agreement and demobilization, Kubiš was discharged from army on 19 October 1938 and returned to his civilian life, working at a brick factory.

At the eve of World War II, on 16 June 1939, Kubiš fled Czechoslovakia and joined a forming Czechoslovak unit in Kraków, Poland. Soon he was transferred to Algiers, where he entered the French Foreign Legion. He fought in France during the early stage of World War II and received his Croix de guerre there.

A month after the German victory in the Battle of France, Kubiš fled to Great Britain, where he received training as a paratrooper. The Free Czechoslovaks, as he and other self-exiled Czechoslovaks were called, were stationed at Cholmondeley Castle near Malpas in Cheshire. He and his best friend, Jozef Gabcík, both befriended the Ellison family, from Ightfield, Shropshire, whom they met while in Whitchurch, Shropshire.

In 1941, Kubiš was dropped into Czechoslovakia as part of Operation Anthropoid, where he died following the successful assassination of Reinhard Heydrich. His remains were buried secretly in a mass grave at the Dáblice cemetery in Prague. Since this was unknown after World War II, Karel Curda, the member of their squad who betrayed them to the Nazis, was coincidentally also buried at the cemetery. However, in 1990 mass graves were excavated and a memorial site with symbolic gravestones was established instead. In 2009, a memorial was built at the place of the attack on Heydrich.

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Jan Kubiš se narodil 24. cervna 1913 v Dolních Vilémovicích. Jeho vojenská kariéra zacala v roce 1935, kdy byl povolán k výkonu základní vojenské služby. V armáde po jejím ukoncení zustal jako délesloužící poddustojník. Krátce po obsazení ceských zemí uprchl do ciziny a po krátké epizode v cizinecké legii se dostal do cs. jednotek ve Francii. Za prokázané hrdinství v bojích na Loire obdržel francouzský válecný kríž. Po okupaci Francie prešel do Velké Británie, kde prošel výcvikem a byl vyslán zpet do CSR.

Rodný dum Jana Kubiše pripomíná tuto osobnost. Spolu s Jozefem Gabcíkem tvorili skupinu Anthropoid. Jejich úkolem bylo provedení atentátu na zastupujícího ríšského protektora, šéfa hlavního ríšského bezpecnostního úradu, SS-obergruppenfuhrera a generála policie Reinharda Heydricha (27.5.1942).

Osobnost Jana Kubiše pripomíná jeho rodný dum v Dolních Vilémovicích, který je prístupný pro verejnost a slouží jako muzeum a pripomínka hrdinského cinu Jana Kubiše a Josefa Gabcíka a celé skupiny Anthropoid.
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The house is open all year round (except Mondays). All visits must be arranged with Mrs. Fňukalová (+420 601 388 300).


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