Memorial Run for Slovak WWII Hero Josef Gabčík Draws Hundreds to Poluvsie

Hundreds of runners and visitors gathered in the village of Poluvsie for a memorial running event honoring Josef Gabčík, a Slovak paratrooper who played a key role in the assassination of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich during World War II. According to Miloslav Čaploviči, director of the Military History Institute, the importance of commemorating Gabčík's memory is invaluable. Gabčík was one of two Czechoslovak paratroopers who carried out Operation Anthropoid in 1942, killing Heydrich, one of the main architects of the Holocaust and Nazi governor of the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.