Josef Valčík

Josef Valčík was born in the village of Smolina in Moravia, Austria-Hungary (now part of Valašské Klobouky, Czech Republic).

He is buried at the Ďáblice Cemetery in Prague.^[1]

SS-Obergruppenführer Heydrich, a high-ranking German Nazi official, was chief of the Reich Security Main Office and one of the main architects of the Holocaust. He was also Stellvertretender Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia in 1942.

The Germans were unable to locate the attackers until Karel Čurda of the "Out Distance" sabotage group turned himself in to the Gestapo and gave them the names of the team's local contacts for the reward of one million Reichsmarks.^[2] Valčík and the others died after a six-hour firefight with Waffen-SS troops and German police in the Saints Cyril and Methodius Cathedral.^[3]

Fourteen members of Valčík's family were arrested, brought to Mauthausen concentration camp and executed.

• Parents Jan Valčík (1880–1942) and Veronika Valčík (1888–1942)
• Brother Antonín Valčík (1919–1942) and sister Ludmila Valčíková (1923–1942)
• Sister Terezia Beňová (1912–1942) with husband Jan Beňa (1908–1942)
• Sister Marie Kolaříková (1917–1942) with husband Josef Kolařík (1914–1942)
• Sister Františka Sívková (1911–1942) with husband František Sívek (1910–1942)
• Brother Alois Valčík (1908–1942) with wife Anna Valčíková (1907–1942)
• Brother Emil Valčík (1909–1942) with wife Anna Valčíková (1911–1942)

• 1942 – – Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945
• 1942 – – Second Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 in memoriam
• 1944 – – Commemorative Medal of the Czechoslovak Army Abroad with France and Great Britain Bars
• 1945 – – Third Czechoslovak War Cross 1939–1945 in memoriam
• 1949 – – Czechoslovak Military Order for Freedom, Gold Star
• 1968 – – Order of the Red Banner
• 2010 – – Cross of Merit of the State Defense^[4]