Name: Rare London loan: Čapek’s Letters from England, signed by WWII paratroopers, on display in Prague
Uploaded: 2025-05-30T09:54:05+00:00
Channel: Martin Hladík
Description: The Museum of Literature in Prague is hosting a powerful new exhibition—centred around a remarkable item on loan from London. At its heart is a rare English edition of Karel Čapek’s Letters from England, signed and dedicated in the autumn of 1941 by twenty Czechoslovak parachute trainees in the UK. Among them was Jan Kubiš,

Photo: Zuzana Jarolímková, iROZHLAS.cz

The Museum of Literature in Prague is hosting a powerful new exhibition—centred around a remarkable item on loan from London. At its heart is a rare English edition of Karel Čapek’s Letters from England, signed and dedicated in the autumn of 1941 by twenty Czechoslovak parachute trainees in the UK. Among them was Jan Kubiš, one of the men who would later carry out the assassination of Nazi official Reinhard Heydrich.

The exhibition at the Museum of Literature began on Tuesday, May 27, at exactly 10:31 a.

See more here.

Author: Ruth Fraňková