If we manage to gain people's trust, the project can be a platform for meetings even in times of unexpected crises. Such long-term continuity is essential for us.
Together with experts, memorials and fans of the project we want to create an archive of memories and documents about this somewhat hidden but also historically unique place. Form of presentation will emerge from the collaborative work, so as to inspire others to participate in the long-term building of the memory of this place. The aim of the project is to activate people to collaborate and participate in something interesting and useful, all from the safety of their homes, using current online technologies. Predominantly older people are making memories at home during the epidemic and we would like to enable them to share these together and record the fading memory of the place and the local community. The result will be a long-term documentation project, but the actual goal of the current project is to connect lonely people and inspire them to meaningful action.The František Suchý Park is a small piece of greenery just behind the Vinohrady Cemetery towards Strašnice. It was always a diagonal road that went around the cemetery on the eastern side and connected the lower Vršovice road with the upper Vinohradská road. The surrounding construction in the 1940s gave the park a square shape, but preserved a fragment of the original diagonal shortcut. In the 1950s, the playground was probably eradicated here in the "Z" action, which gradually became overgrown during the normalisation period. During the construction of the metro to Strasnice in 1987, the engineers of the metro station erected colourful fans here, giving the park its current appearance. Thus, a small green belly with the original path and the normalisation "Centre Pompidou" was created.
The unnamed park, although according to memorials it was called the Partisans' Park after the war and until the 1980s, was named in 2015 by the Prague 10 City Hall in cooperation with the Memory of the Nation after František Suchý. The ceremony was also attended by the then 88-year-old František Suchý, a participant in the resistance for which he served 12 years in a communist prison. Mikuláš Kroupa originally suggested naming the park after him, but since it is not customary to name parks after still living personalities, it was named after his father, also František Suchý, the pre-war director of the Strašnický Crematorium. His father František and his son hid the ashes of those executed by the Nazis during the war and after the war he was also arrested by the communists, together with his wife Olga.
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