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Anniversary of the birth of Fr. Suchý IV.

19 June 2022
14-22 h
František Suchý Park, Olga Space
Nad Olšinami 282/31
Prague 10 - Strašnice

Two stories of the struggle against totalitarianism

On Sunday, symbolically on Father's Day, we invite you to celebrate the birth of František Suchý Sr. (*21 June 1899), a traditional neighbourhood event in František Suchý Park.

Father's Day frames the Czechoslovak Resistance holiday

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 Anniversary of the birth of Fr. Suchý

František Suchý Park

4 pm - Vernissage and exhibition Vesna - installation of paintings that grew out of the art workshop Vesna during the spring events, accompanied by Ukrainian folklore.

5 pm - Literary reading - in cooperation with Josef Straka from the local The House of Reading this year we will dedicate to Ukrainian literature and translations from Ukrainian by translator and also prose writer Alexey Sevruk, who will read from his translations of contemporary Ukrainian prose, talk about contemporary Ukrainian literature and finally read some of his own texts.

6 p.m. - Guided tour of the Olga space with Markéta Othová's exhibition OLD BYDLIŠTĚ

19:3O - Marie Ladrová on the theremin

9 pm - Screening of Uninvited Guest - with an introduction by the author (Czechoslovakia, 1969, 22 min, written and directed by Vlastimil Venclík, more about the film).

Visual restoration - art elements on the park furniture.

Brush cut - art workshop.

Olga space and gallery from 2 pm

Exhibition Markéta Othová STARÁ BYDLIŠTĚ

Projection video of an interview with František Suchy Jr. (Memory of the Nation)

Audio recordings interview with František Suchy Jr. (Vlastimil Venclík)

 

Want to get involved? Contact us by email bubahof@bubahof.com, or visit us in Olg spaceand during opening hours on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 2 pm to 6 pm.

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.

With the support of Municipal district of Prague 10. In cooperation with Prague Municipal Library Prague House of Reading.

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