125 VÝROČÍ NAROZENÍ FRANTIŠKA SUCHÉHO

Od 19. do 21. června 2024 chystáme ve strašnickém parku Fr. Suchého společnou oslavu významné osobnosti, po které je park pojmenován. Připomíná nejen osud zahradního architekta a ředitele krematoria Františka Suchého st. a jeho rodiny a jejich boj proti totalitě, ale i odvahu všech, kteří násilí čelili nebo stále čelí.

Od roku 2019 každoročně v parku připomínáme památku rodiny Suchých. Záměr se v čase rozšiřuje a prostor získává i odpovědná péče o krajinu, umění ve veřejném prostoru a sousedské setkávání a příběhy. Třídenní akce se bude konat v František Suchý Park a v přilehlém Prostoru Olga.

U příležitosti 125. výročí narození Františka Suchého st. vítáme sousedstvo i okolní k uctěním památky, odpovědné péči o park, besedám či prohlídce krematoria. Kulturně umělecký program ladíme a pokud se do toho chcete zapojit, ozvěte se nám na email lucie@bubahof.com. Nebo nás navštivte v prostoru Olga během otevírací doby středy a čtvrtky od 14 do 18 hodin., od června od 15 do 19.

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Two stories of the struggle against totalitarianism

The originally nameless park in Prague's Strašnice, although according to memorials it was called the Partisans' Park after the war until the 1980s, got its name in 2015. Thanks to the Memory of the Nation and the Prague 10 municipality, the name commemorates the memory of the director of the Strašnice crematorium, František Suchý. The sign in the park was also attended by the then 88-year-old František Suchý Jr., the son of Olga and František, a participant in the resistance, for which he served 12 years in a communist prison. Both fates intertwined against the background of the resistance against the Nazi and Communist regimes.

František Suchý (* 21 June 1899 † 23 January 1982)

From 1932 he was the director of the Strašnický Crematorium. During the Protectorate, victims of political murders from Pankrác and Kobylis were burned in the crematorium. František Suchý, together with his son, wrote down the names of the executed and preserved their ashes. They thus saved the remains of 2,200 victims of Nazism who would otherwise have ended up in the compost heap. When after the war the bodies of the executed began to be brought back, he again kept the ashes of the victims of the totalitarian regime, this time the communist one. For this courage he received the Order of T. G. M. in 2011.

Communist persecution affected the whole family, including the wife and mother Olga Sucha (nee Havel). The parents were first arrested in 1949 for helping another family to emigrate, and the final sentence was 4 and 4.5 years in 1952.

František Suchý Jr. (* 17 April 1927 † 7 June 2018)

František was only 16 years old when he helped his father write down the names of people who had been executed by the Nazis a few hours earlier. When after the war the bodies of those executed began to be brought back, he decided to join the resistance. Although the relatives of the victims were informed about the cremation, they were not allowed to see the body or be present at the ceremony. Young František was also holding the urn of Milada Horáková. Like his parents, he was arrested in 1952 and given 25 years in Mírov. He was released in the autumn of 1964 after serving half of his sentence. In 2017, he received Memory of the Nation Award.