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JINDRA and the Sokol support network

domestic resistance network supporting parachute teams

January–June 1942 · activity covered here

JINDRA was one circle within the Sokol resistance that helped ANTHROPOID establish a functioning base in the Protectorate. Contacts became apartments, documents, medical treatment, messages and supplies. A network does not imply that every helping household formally belonged to one organization: its members cooperated in different ways.

From the first contacts to Prague

The Sokol resistance was a web of personal relationships, not one Prague address. František Kroutil, Břetislav Bauman and Jaroslav Starý helped near Nehvizdy; Jan Zelenka-Hajský and Jaroslav Piskáček were important Prague organizers. Sources disagree on the exact order of their first meetings with the parachutists.

Practical assistance

Households hid parachutists and passed messages; others obtained papers, food and medical assistance. The Moravecs provided a major base, Lyčka treated Kubiš, and Zelenka arranged further contacts. These roles were connected but distinct.

Piskáček’s circle shows how help was distributed: one person found an apartment, another a doctor, another employment books and ration coupons. Supporting households cannot automatically be labelled formal members of one organization.

The network exposed

After Čurda’s testimony, the Gestapo struck many households. According to Atentát, some contacts, including the Ogoun refuge, remained undiscovered. Repression extended far beyond the operation itself to supporters and families.

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Sources

  • Atentát: Operace Anthropoid 1941–1942 · Michal Burian, Aleš Knížek, Jiří Rajlich, Eduard Stehlík · VHÚ Praha

    Original citations and evidence accompany the underlying accepted claims; especially relevant are PDF/printed pages 48–65, 76–80 and 90–93.

    This link leads to information about the publication. Chrona does not host a scan of the book.

  • Nepostradatelná úloha domácích podporovatelů operace Anthropoid · Martin Jindra · Paměť a dějiny 2/2012 · ÚSTR

    PDF pages 1–6 (establishing the refuge, arrivals, Zelenka, the Moravec family and supplies), 10–15 (discovery, trial, executions and the Fafek family).

  • Operace Anthropoid: Hrdinové z řad lékařské obce · Tempus Medicorum · Česká lékařská komora, 6/2017

    PDF pages 3–4 / printed pages 4–5: sections Břetislav Lyčka and Jaroslav Piskáček, especially Sokolovská 41/7, Vysočany and Ouběnice.

  • ATENTÁT 80: Leden 1942 – sokolové proti Heydrichovi · Vojenský historický ústav Praha; Michal Burian

    Sections headed Štěstí v neštěstí, Skupina Říjen and Oběť nejvyšší; web lines 11–18, 31–39, 49–54.

  • Příběh rodiny Piskáčkových · Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů, Paměť a dějiny 2016/03; Vlastislav Janík

    Printed pages 80–90, especially 80–82, 84–85 and 87–90; web PDF pages P0–P10.