Students of the Faculty of Arts and the inhabitants of Prague, gathered at Jan Palach’s plaque to commemorate Palach’s protest against the Soviet occupation. Another event to commemorate the death of Jan Palach will be the renaming of the University’s Centre of Study and Information Services to Jan Palach’s Library. The Centre is housed in the main building of the Faculty of Arts in Jan Palach Square.
New website
The authors of the multimedia project janpalach.cz have prepared a representative selection of photographic, audio and audiovisual materials on Jan Palach. The project is aimed mainly towards the young generation who only know about Palach’s deed and his time from media.
The website also features links to Jan Zajíc and Evžen Plocek, both of whom also committed suicide by self-immolation, and others who followed them abroad. The website also contains a record of Jaroslav Seifert’s speech, which the poet addressed to students four days after Palach’s death.
Film about Jan Palach
The Polish film director Agnieszka Holland, who studied at Prague‘s FAMU in the 1960’s, is to make a three-part feature film for HBO. She knows the atmosphere of Prague of the 1960’s very well, she also belonged to the non-conformists.
