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SUBSCRIBE: - The Jan Palach memorial, Prague, Czech Republic. Jan Palach (11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economy at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation was a political protest against the end of the Prague Spring resulting from the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact armies.
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Jan Palach Memorial in Prague
Jan Palach was a Czech student who set himself alight in 1969 in protest against the Soviet occupation.
Jan Palach Memorials Wenceslas Square Prague
The anniversary of the death of Jan Palach. 19 January 1969.
The memorial to Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc in front of the National Museum and near the statue of St. Wenceslas. Wenceslas Square Prague
Prague January 16, 2016
Due to a reconstruction, the historical building of the National Museum is closed from 7 July 2011.
The re-opening of the historical building is symbolically planned for 2018, when the National Museum will celebrate 200 years since its founding.
Memorial to Czech student who died in 1969
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Prague - 16 January 2016
1. Memorial to Jan Palach, student who died after setting himself a light in protest of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion
2. A ribbon being cut in front of the memorial to inaugurate it
3. Memorial to Jan Palach.
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Renata Hejduk, daughter of the deceased architect John Hejduk who designed of the memorial:
It's a dream...I've been working on since 2007 with various constituencies of the city to get this done. So it's an absolute dream and miracle. I never thought it would be finished.
5. Tilt down the memorial
6. Locals reading information about memorial
7. SOUNDBITE (English) David Shapiro, author of the poem The Funeral of Jan Palach (reading the poem):
When I entered the first meditation, I escaped the gravity of the object. I experienced emptiness and I have been dead a long time.
8. People reading The Funeral of Jan Palach poem written on stone slab
9. Memorial
10. SOUNDBITE (English) David Shapiro, author of the poem The Funeral of Jan Palach:
The gesture of a great young man is much stronger than we think. To have this gesture, it's like the gesture of the great Tibetan monks who permitted themselves to burn even without showing pathos.
11. Various of people surrounding the memorial stone
12. Shapiro posing for cameras (gesturing in a nod to the Czech Velvet revolution)
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A memorial was unveiled in Prague on Saturday to honour student Jan Palach who died after setting himself a light in protest at the 1968 Soviet-led invasion.
Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square almost five months after the armies of the five Warsaw Pact countries crushed the liberal reforms known as the Prague Spring. He died three days later.
The brutal crackdown turned what was then known as Czechoslovakia into one of the most hardline communist regimes that ended after the 1989 Velvet Revolution led by Vaclav Havel.
Two monumental pieces designed by United States architect John Hejduk - one dedicated to Palach, the other to his mother - have been placed near the Faculty of Arts where he studied.
The design of the memorial was inspired by the poem The Funeral of Jan Palach by David Schapiro, who read his piece at the inauguration.
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Czechs honour student who killed himself in 1969
(16 Jan 2019) Czechs on Wednesday paid tribute to Jan Palach, a student who set himself alight 50 years ago to inspire the nation's resistance against the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Various commemorative events were held at Charles University in Prague, where he studied, and elsewhere across the country.
Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square on 16 January 1969, almost five months after the armies of the five Warsaw Pact countries crushed the liberal reforms known as the 'Prague Spring'.
He died three days later.
Palach's self-immolation shocked the country but failed to make an immediate impact because the hardline Communist regime established after the invasion harshly persecuted any dissent.
But it inspired massive protests twenty years later, in January 1989, and the Velvet Revolution led by Vaclav Havel later that year helped to end the Communist era.
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euronews cinema - Burning Bush pays tribute to Jan Palach's family
In 1969 Czech student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square in Prague to protest against the Soviet occupation.
The television mini series focuses on Jan's mother and her legal battle to clear her son's name.
The first part of Agniezka Holland's trilogy has just had its world premiere in Prague.
Although Jan Palach is a hero in the Czech Republic, not many people know about his family's legal battle to clear his name, fighting against the Communist machine of the 1970s.
Burning Bush is an HBO Europe production and the channel's most ambitious big-budget project to date.
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The plaque to Jan Palach Prague
The anniversary of the death of Jan Palach. 19 January 1969.
The plaque to Jan Palach on the wall of the
Faculty of Philosophy and Arts Charles University in Prague
Prague Jan Palach Square
Prague January 16, 2016
Memorial to student protester in Czech Republic
(9 Oct 2019) A new memorial is opening to a university student who burned himself to death in protest at the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Jan Palach's childhood home in Všetaty, north of Prague, has been turned into a chapel-like space to allow visitors to contemplate what he did for the nation. An adjacent pavilion contains a small museum.
The 20-year-old set himself on fire five months after the Warsaw Pact countries crushed liberal reforms known as the Prague Spring. He died three days later.
Palach's self-immolation shocked the country but failed to produce an immediate impact. The hard-line communist regime established after the invasion harshly persecuted dissenters.
But his action on January 16, 1969, did inspire weeklong protests two decades later, and the Velvet Revolution led by Vaclav Havel later in 1989 that ended Czechoslovakia's communist era.
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In Prague, A Dark Memorial To Wartime Heroism
Seventy years ago, Czech resistance fighters assassinated the Nazi leader of occupied
Czechoslovakia, Reinhard Heydrich, known as the Butcher of Prague. A Czech organization is commemorating the event with a re-creation of a concentration camp, a reminder not only of the resistance effort, but also of the brutal crackdown on civilians that followed. Video by Nikolay Pavlov, RFE/RL
Prague New Memorial to JanPalach
In Prague's waterfront stands a new monument to Jan Palach, is the work of architect of Czech origin John Hejduk.
The ceremonial unveiling of a new monument to Jan Palach by American architect John Hejduk was held January 16, 2016 on Ales waterfront opposite the Rudolfinum.
Unveiling ceremony took place on the occasion of 47 years since Jan Palach self immolation to protest against the suppression of freedoms and violent occupation by Russian troops since the invasion in August 1968th.
Man tries to set himself on fire at Prague square
(18 Jan 2019) Czech officials say a man has been seriously injured after he set himself on fire in downtown Prague amid commemorative events to remember a student who burned himself to death 50 years ago to inspire resistance against the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
Police say the man born in 1964 poured an unspecified flammable liquid on himself at Wenceslas Square and set himself on fire Friday.
They say that people who were nearby extinguished the fire.
Prague's rescue service says the man suffered burns on about 30 percent of his body and was transported to a hospital in an artificially-induced coma.
Jan Palach set himself on fire on January 16, 1969 after the Warsaw Pact countries crushed liberal reforms known as the Prague Spring.
He died three days later.
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Tribute for Jan Palach / Pocta pro Jana Palacha
Tribute for Jan Palach / Pocta pro Jana Palacha
16/01/2019
50 years of anniversary
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The last six months of the life of Jan Palach, who self-immolated to protest against the invasion of Czechoslovakia to crush of Prague Spring.
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Prague - Golden City of a Hundred Spires
First visit to Prague (Praha) also known as the Golden City of a Hundred Spires ????.
We start our travel by flying out of LAX, connecting through PHL and finally reaching Prague.
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Day 1
- Wenceslas Square
- Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc memorial
- Lucerna Arcade
- Franciscan Garden
- Powder Tower
- Municipal House
- Old Town Square
- Astronomical Clock
Day 2
- Charles Bridge
- St. Vitus Cathedral
- Prague Castle
- Jižní zahrady (South Gardens)
- Lenin Wall
- Paláce Beethoven
- 7ft Sigmund Freud hanging statue
- Opera with Ballet at Municipal House
Day 3
- St. Nicholas Church
- Farmers Market
- Žižkov Television Tower
- Petřín Funicular
- Petřín Lookout Tower
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A special thanks to our friend Jindrich who spent a day with us and showed us this beautiful city.
Also a shout out to Janek from Honest Guide whose videos helped immensely in planning this trip.
Burning Bush; 44 years after the death of Jan Palach
The three part drama, directed for HBO Europe by the notable Polish filmmaker Agnieszka Holland. The film begins with a reconstruction of the shocking act of student of the Charls university's faculty of arts who in protest of the Soviet occupation, set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas square on the 16th of Januarey 1969 and died four days later.Agnieszka Holland is one of Poland's most prominent filmmakers and a Hollywood outsider. Mrs. Holland one of the four directors who competed for the Oscar in the foreign language category with Asghar Farhadi's film A separation. She responded to a question about Iranian Cinema:I think it is an incredible amount of talented people and there is a fair amount of most inspiring cinema which probably comes not only from talent but also from some kind of oppression. Most of good cinema happens in countries where the people have to fight for something. For freedom for example of expression.the story of Jafar Panahi shows what price we are paying for this. So I am really impressed by Iranian cinema, I love 'separation' and I love a lot of movies I have seen.
Radio Farda reporter Mohammad Zarghami tells the story of Burning Bush in Persian language.
NATIONAL MUSEUM IN PRAGUE- NARODNI MUSEUM
The National Museum is a Czech museum institution intended to systematically establish, prepare, and publicly exhibit natural scientific and historical collections. It was founded in 1818 by Kašpar Maria Šternberg. Historian František Palacký was also strongly involved in the foundation of the museum.
Man tries to set himself on fire at Prague square
Czech officials say a man has been seriously injured after he set himself on fire in downtown Prague amid commemorative events to remember a student who burned himself to death 50 years ago to inspire resistance against the 1968 Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
1968 Prague exhibition
National Museum exhibition marking 1968 invasion anniversary