June 18, 1942:
- "Jozef Gabcik and Jan Kubis, British-trained Czech partisans who mortally wounded Reinhard Heydrich on May 27, are discovered with several other partisans inside Prague's Sts. Cyril and Methodius Church.
The church is besieged by German troops and SS.
All partisans perish."
"Following the ambush of Reinhard Heydrich, the two assassins and other parachutists who participated in the operation took refuge in the crypt of St. Cyril and St. Methodius, located in Prague.
Once their hiding place was discovered, German troops stormed the crypt.
A gun battle ensued, and all of the partisans were killed."
- Munkaszolgálat
"After the adoption of anti-Jewish laws in Hungary in 1938 and '39, Jews of military age were deemed "unreliable."
Considered unfit to bear arms, tens of thousands of Jews were drafted into the Munkaszolgálat (Hungarian Labor Service System).
"Instead of carrying guns, these Jews were given shovels and pickaxes. They worked construction and toiled in mines, and, during combat, performed such dangerous tasks as clearing mine fields.
"Many Hungarian officers, viciously antisemitic, abused members of the Munkaszolgálat.
They deprived Jews of their boots and rations and sometimes sadistically tortured them.
They forced some Jews to participate in humiliating games of leapfrog and acrobatics.
Other Jews, in the dead of winter, were doused with water and ordered not to move until the water iced up on their skin.
"After Hungary declared war on the Soviet Union in June 1941, tens of thousands of Munkaszolgálat Jews lost their lives as casualties of war.
Ironically, after the Nazis occupied Hungary on March 19, 1944, many Jews found refuge in Munkaszolgálat, where they performed the hard labor but avoided deportations"