Prague approved the design of the monument to the victims of the Heydrich Era

Prague - The city council yesterday approved the outcome of the artistic competition for the creation and installation of a commemorative plaque, which will be located in the area of the Orthodox Church of St. Cyril and St. Methodius to commemorate the 294 victims of the Heydrichiad. Its author is sculptor Marie Šeborová. The plaque is expected to be completed by the end of May, with a ceremonial unveiling scheduled for October 24, on the 68th anniversary of the largest wave of executions, councilor Ondřej Pecha told reporters today.
The memorial is intended to honor the people who somehow helped during the resistance action or were related to the perpetrators. "These people still do not have, unlike the assassins themselves and the world-famous symbols of widespread Nazi terror - the villages of Lidice and Ležáky, any commemoration, any memorial," stated the magistrate.
In the Mauthausen concentration camp, 294 people were killed, including children over 13 years of age. They were murdered in two waves - on October 24, 1942, and January 26, 1943.
The assassination of the acting Reich protector Reinhard Heydrich is considered one of the most significant actions of the Czech resistance. Paratroopers Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík attacked him on May 27, 1942, and Heydrich succumbed to his injuries on June 4. Immediately after the assassination, martial law was declared, mass executions began, and Nazi terror culminated in the annihilation of Lidice and Ležáky.
The paratroopers from the Anthropoid operation, who were sent from London to assist the domestic resistance and tasked with preparing the assassination, have had their monument since last May at the so-called Kobylisy bend, where the assassination took place.