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The Khodl home — shelter before the attack and a message afterwards

Story period: spring 1942 · 28 May 1942

Location: Kolbenova 659/16, Vysočany (formerly Valdecká Street)

Emanuela and Václav Khodl repeatedly supported Kubiš and Gabčík. On 28 May, the day after the attack, Kubiš left a message for Gabčík in their apartment in what was then Valdecká Street.

Two men in civilian clothes

spring 1942

The household offered shelter, food and a safe contact.

The Khodls were among the households that helped the parachutists. The retained book documents repeated stays at their apartment in the former Valdecká Street, without giving exact dates for individual visits.

A message after the attack

28 May 1942

Kubiš left a message here for Gabčík.

On 28 May, Kubiš left a message for Gabčík at the Khodl apartment. A radio account also describes the pair leaving the Khodls on the morning of the attack, but calls that location their villa. It cannot automatically be identified with the Kolbenova Street apartment.

The family murdered in Mauthausen

24 October 1942

Emanuela, Václav and their son Václav were among the executed supporters.

The Nazis arrested the family and murdered all three in Mauthausen on 24 October 1942.

Czech Radio identifies wartime house no. 659 in the former Valdecká Street as today’s Kolbenova 16. The point at 50.1105684, 14.5064812 is the present-day address point for 659/16, not a particular room.

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Sources

  • Atentát: Operace Anthropoid 1941–1942 · 61
  • Atentát: Operace Anthropoid 1941–1942 · 65
  • Atentát: Operace Anthropoid 1941–1942 · 61
  • Atentát: Operace Anthropoid 1941–1942 · 64

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.

  • Za stolem seděli dva kluci ve svetru · Český rozhlas Radiožurnál

    Jaroslava Mokrá-Smržová’s opening testimony about the Khodl household and Kubiš and Gabčík’s departure on 27 May.

  • Poprava 262 českých vlastenců v Mauthausenu 24. října 1942 · Ministerstvo obrany České republiky · Válečné hroby

    Passages on the transfer from Terezín, the sham medical examination and the executions of 24 October.

  • Khodlovi · Český rozhlas Radiožurnál

    Introduction and building captions, including the former Valdecká no. 659 and today’s Kolbenova 16.

  • OpenStreetMap Nominatim address references — Stage 3 batch 2 · OpenStreetMap contributors

    Dated reference response with OpenStreetMap feature IDs and coordinates.