Anniversary of the birth of Fr. Suchý I.

Anniversary associated with the date 21 June 2019:

- 120 years since the birth of František Suchý Sr. (1899)
- 80 years since the introduction of the anti-Jewish regulations in Germany and the Czech Protectorate (1939). On the same day, Alois Lorenz, the last head of the Stb.
- 70 years since the first judicial murder of the communist regime - the execution of Heliodor Píky in Bory Prison (1949)

- Summer solstice
- Pride Day; commemorates the first marches for LGBT rights in Greenwich Village in 1969
- 51 years since the start of the Warsaw Pact military exercise on Czechoslovak territory called Šumava (1968)
- 398 years since the execution of 27 Czech lords on Old Town Square in Prague (1621)

Visual restoration of the park: bubahof and Michal Pěchouček
Sound installation by Ondřej Skala (JTNB / Jesus marches on Berlin)

Program:

- Art workshop for children: Brush cut
- A cinema story by F. Suchý with an introduction by Mikuláš Kroupa Memory of a Nation
- Literary reading by Josef Straka, Tomáš Zmeškal, Kamil Bouška, Norbert Holub City Library - House of Reading
- Music by JHB; Marie Ladrová

František Suchý Sr. * 21 June 1899 † 23 January 1982
From 1932 he was director of the Strašnický Crematorium. When the victims of political murders from Pankrác and Kobylis began to be burned in the crematorium during the Protectorate, František Suchý, together with his son, wrote down the names of the victims and kept their ashes. In this way, they saved the remains of 2,200 victims of Nazism who would otherwise have ended up in the compost heap. For this courage, he received the TGM Order in 2011.

František Suchý the Younger * 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. His father was again hiding the ashes of victims of a totalitarian regime, this time a communist one. Relatives were informed of the cremation, but were not allowed to see the body or be present at the ceremony. Young František was also holding the urn of Milada Horáková.
Mr and Mrs Suchý were briefly arrested in 1949 for helping another family flee across the border, and in 1952 František Suchý Jr. was also arrested. The parents were sentenced to 4 and 4.5 years and the son František was sentenced to 25 years in Mírov. He was released in the autumn of 1964 after serving half of his sentence. In 2017, he received the Memory of the Nation Award.
https://www.pametnaroda.cz/cs/suchy-frantisek-1927

Both fates intertwine against the background of the resistance against the Nazi and Communist regimes. The one-day cultural event in František Suchý Park aims to celebrate the birth of the important native, after whom the park is named. We would like to remind the local people of the tradition of the fight against totalitarianism and on that occasion also partially repair and revitalize the place. We believe that the fate of the landscape architect and director of the crematorium, František Suchý, and his son is not yet sufficiently known. We would like the park to become, and remain, a worthy memorial to the victims whose ashes, with the sacrifice of their own lives, they both saved for the survivors.