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Anniversary of the birth of Fr. Suchý III.

20 June 2021
14-22 h
František Suchý Park, Olga Space
Nad Olšinami 282/31Prague 10 - Strašnice

Two stories of the struggle against totalitarianism

Sunday, the day before the birth of František Suchý (21 June 1899)

The solstice is framed by the Czechoslovak Resistance:

Friday 18. 6. Day of the Heroes of the 2nd Resistance: in 1942, seven brave Czechoslovak soldiers defied the odds in the crypt of the Church of St. Cyril and Methodius

Sunday 27. 6. Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Communist Regime: 1950 Milada Horáková, Jan Buchal, Oldřich Pecl and Záviš Kalandra were executed by the communists.

The Tragic Solstice of Czechoslovak History

On 21 June 1621, 27 Czech lords were executed in Old Town Square in Prague.

On 21 June 1939, the anti-Jewish regulations in force in Germany were introduced on the territory of the Czech Protectorate and on the same day, 21 June 1939, Alois Lorenz, the last head of the Stb, was born.

On 21 June 1949, the first judicial murder of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia was committed, the execution of Heliodor Pika in the prison at Bory.

Program:

Start of the event in František Suchý Park (14:00)

Start of the walk Stories of Prague Cemeteries (14:00)

Video story of František Suchý in Olga space - interviews of Mikuláš Kroupa with František Suchý Jr. /Memory of the Nation/ (throughout the day)

Sound installation by Ondřej Skala /JTNB/ in the park (all day)

Art workshops:

Paintbrush painting - joint tapestry making in the park (all day)

Klára Zahrádková /Xao/ - workshop for the book The Horse and the Snake (15:00 - 17:00)

Jakub Plachý and Tera Šiklová /Xao/ - workshop of illustration and drawing of F.S. Park stories (17:00 - 20:00)

Literary reading:

In cooperation with Josef Straka from the local House of Reading Vojtěch Vacek will read from his new book (17:00)

Music:

Markéta Lisá /KUTYA/ - electro-pop bedroom songs (17:30)

Opening:

Paintings by Věra Nováková, text by Zuzana Krišková, in Olga space (18:30)

The next programme will be gradually supplemented in cooperation with the Straka and Solidarity associations, the choirs of the ČCE Strašnice and Vršovice, and others.There will also be more music and reminiscing about the local history of the park.

Reports from the last 2 years:

More on the programme:

- Stories of Prague Cemeteries - a new Jewish and German Protestant cemetery.

The walk takes us to the border of Žižkov, Strasnice and Vinohrady, where there are two interesting cemeteries within walking distance. The larger and better known is the New Jewish Cemetery in Olšany, the largest Jewish cemetery in the Czech Republic, opened in 1890. There are buried here such important personalities as Franz Kafka, Ota Pavel, Arnošt Lustig, Lenka Reinerová and many others. The second stop will be the German Evangelical Cemetery in Strašnice, which miraculously escaped liquidation, which was decided in 1958. In recent years it has been reconstructed and opened to the public. Buried here are, for example, businessman Moritz Gröbe, theatre director Angelo Neumann, actress Johanna Buska and others.

- Klára Zahrádková /XAO/ book workshop Horse and snake

An art workshop dedicated to the coexistence of seemingly incompatible couples. A horse and a snake, a ptarmigan and an ant, a powder puff and a broom, ... or someone else, it's up to you. Two diverse creatures who spend their time together happily. Where did these two meet? Where do they like to go on holiday? What's it like at home? We'll take a peek into the private lives of these unconventional couples and create a little pictorial reportage of their life together.

Literary reading:

- Josef Straka (1972), poet and prose writer, organizer of literary life.

- Vojtěch Vacek (1993, Prague), graduated in bookstore and publishing production at the Hellichova University of Applied Sciences. He works as a librarian. He has published poems, stories and fables in magazines Tvar, Psí víno, Lemurie, H_aluze and others.

Electro-pop bedroom songs:

- Markéta Lisa

The story of the family of František Suchý, his wife Olga and son František:

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 Memory of the Nation Award.

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.

For more information:Jan Vincenec, +420 720 361 043

With the support of Municipality of Prague 10.

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