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Explore history with Chrona

Explore connected stories of places, people and events through maps and time. Follow a chapter-by-chapter journey or discover your own path, with sources alongside the history.

Stories and chapters

Operation Anthropoid

  1. The decision to launch the operation
  2. Preparation in Britain
  3. Landing and the first helpers
  4. Prague’s network of helpers
  5. The attack on Heydrich
  6. The hunt and exposure
  7. The refuge in Resslova Street
  8. Consequences and the helpers’ fates

Understanding the Second World War

  1. How democracy became dictatorship
  2. China and Japan’s pursuit of empire
  3. Concessions, occupation and the invasion of Poland
  4. Why France fell and Britain kept fighting
  5. 1941: the conflicts become a world war
  6. Living under occupation
  7. Why the balance of the war changed
  8. Two fronts converge on Germany
  9. How the war against Japan ended
  10. Victory and the difficult beginning of peace

The people who helped

  1. From the first apartment to a network of help
  2. The Moravecs’ everyday assistance
  3. The Piskáčeks: contacts and practical help
  4. Medical help underground
  5. People working together around the church

From the attack to the crypt

  1. The attack at the Libeň bend
  2. Shelter and treatment after the attack
  3. How investigators reached the refuge
  4. Seven men in Resslova Street

What followed

  1. Repression before and after the attack
  2. Lidice: the destruction of an ordinary village
  3. Ležáky and the link to London
  4. Kobylisy: an execution site under occupation
  5. Families and helpers in Terezín and Mauthausen
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