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\nFranti\u0161ek Such\u00fd Park\n<\/h1>
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Bubahof stepped outside the walls of the courtyard and with similar care restored the forgotten stra\u0161nick\u00fd park<\/a>, named in 2015 after Franti\u0161ek Such\u00fd, the director of the local crematorium. He risked his life during the Second World War by secretly recording the names of those executed by the Nazis, and subsequently after his son, who faced communist persecution with equal bravery, by helping to further preserve the memory of the victims of communist atrocities.<\/p>

Since 2019, the local association has been organizing celebrations of the anniversary of the birth of FRANTISEK SUCH\u00c9 in the park and a CELEBRATION LUNCH inviting all interested neighbours to the white tables. According to the design of the artist Michal P\u011bchou\u010dek, the park has been given new thematic visual elements and the dismal state of the furnishings, which it regularly renews, has been restored. The community of people and associations around the park is growing and slowly fulfilling the original intention of restoring the park as a sustainable and safe place where we create new traditions together.<\/p>

In the spring of 2021, the venue became Space Olga<\/a>, an open community space with a gallery and front garden, which symbolically bears the name of the wife and mother of Franti\u0161ek Suchy and is adjacent to the park.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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Two stories of the struggle against totalitarianism<\/h3>\n

The originally nameless park in Prague's Stra\u0161nice, 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 Stra\u0161nice crematorium, Franti\u0161ek Such\u00fd. The sign in the park was also attended by the then 88-year-old Franti\u0161ek Such\u00fd Jr., the son of Olga and Franti\u0161ek, 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.<\/p>\n\n

Franti\u0161ek Such\u00fd (* 21 June 1899 \u2020 23 January 1982)<\/h4>\n

From 1932 he was the director of the Stra\u0161nick\u00fd Crematorium. During the Protectorate, victims of political murders from Pankr\u00e1c and Kobylis were burned in the crematorium. Franti\u0161ek Such\u00fd, 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.<\/p>\n

Communist persecution affected the whole family, including the wife and mother Olga Sucha (nee Havel)<\/strong>. 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.<\/p>\n\n

Franti\u0161ek Such\u00fd Jr. (* 17 April 1927 \u2020 7 June 2018)<\/h4>\n

Franti\u0161ek 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 Franti\u0161ek was also holding the urn of Milada Hor\u00e1kov\u00e1. Like his parents, he was arrested in 1952 and given 25 years in M\u00edrov. He was released in the autumn of 1964 after serving half of his sentence. In 2017, he received Memory of the Nation Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>

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\nSummer solstice, June 21<\/strong> contains unexpectedly many layers of fateful and tragic events of our history. 21 June 1939<\/strong> anti-Jewish regulations, which had been in force in Nazi Germany until then, were introduced in the Protectorate. Ironically, on the same day, the last StB chief, Alojz Lorenc, was born. 1949<\/strong>exactly 10 years later, the communists committed the first judicial murder. Heliodor Pika was executed in the Bory prison. 1968<\/strong> an army exercise of the Warsaw Pact states was launched on Czechoslovak territory, which became a sad precursor of the occupation of 21 August. The tragic history of the Czech solstice also includes 21 June 1621<\/strong>, when 27 Czech gentlemen were executed on Old Town Square in Prague.\n

Cultural event on the occasion of the birth of Franti\u0161ek Such\u00fd st.<\/strong>, aims to jointly celebrate the anniversary of the important personality after whom the park is named. It commemorates not only the fate of the garden architect and director of the crematorium Franti\u0161ek Such\u00fd and his family and their fight against totalitarianism, but all those who faced or still face totalitarianism and violence. By taking care of the park and by visual renovations, the depository aims to revitalize the site so that it becomes, and continues to remain, a worthy memorial to the victims whose ashes, with the dedication of their own lives, the two Franti\u0161eks saved for the survivors and the memory of the nation.<\/p>\n

The events in Franti\u0161ek Such\u00fd Park were and are held with the support of local associations, neighbours and volunteers. In addition, with the support of the authority Municipality of Prague 10<\/a>, Via Foundation<\/a>, hl. m. Prague<\/a> a Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>

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