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	Information server city of Prague: Tragic death of Jan Palach commemorated in Prague, Vsetaty
		Palach, 20-year-old student of Prague's Faculty of Art, attempted to burn himself to death at Wenceslas square in Prague on January 16, 1969, in protest of the invasion of Czechoslovakia by the Warsaw Pact troops in August 1968, which crashed the communist-led reform movement.
		Palach's tragic death shocked the society which more or less passively accepted the occupation by foreign armies, and the beginning of "normalisation" of the communist rule.
		Palach's grave at the Olsany cemetery became a symbol of resistance, which the official representatives could not reconcile themselves to and ordered his bodily remains to be exhumed in October 1973, cremated and placed at the cemetery in Vsetaty.
	www.praha-mesto.cz /(vjwzyu45efojhpvldvbfhy55)/default.aspx?id=66397&ido=6035&sh=-137246760 (393 words)

	Jan Palach - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jan Palach (August 11, 1948 – January 19, 1969) was a Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest.
		The funeral of Palach turned into a major protest against the occupation, and a month later (on 25 February 1969) another student, Jan Zajíc, burned himself to death in the same place, followed in April of the same year by Evžen Plocek in the city Jihlava.
		After the Velvet Revolution Palach was commemorated in Prague by a bronze cross embedded at the spot where he fell outside the National Museum, as well as a square named in his honour.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jan_Palach (447 words)

	Palach
		Jan Palach werd geboren op 11 augustus 1948 in Melnik als jongste van 2 zonen van Josef en Libuse Palach.
		Zeker na de dood van zijn vader op 52 jarige leeftijd, Jan was toen 13, werd hij één van de weinige studenten die ook daadwerkelijk opkwam voor zichzelf en zijn medestudenten als hij of zij onrechtvaardig behandeld waren.
		Hij was voor 85 % verbrand en hoopte het te overleven, maar na drie dagen overleed hij in het ziekenhuis.
	members.tripod.com /Tsjechie/Palach.htm (653 words)

	Fragments Photo-Prague
		Palach was born in Vsetaty, a small town a few miles outside of Prague.
		There was Jan Amos Comenius, the 17th century philosopher known as the "teacher of the nation." And there was Jan Hus, who was burned at the stake in 1415 for refusing to renounce his criticism of the corrupt Catholic Church.
		As a philosophy student at Charles University in Prague, Palach participated in strikes and demonstrations in the fall of 1968, but one by one the reforms of the Prague Spring were systematically abolished as the pressure from Moscow continued.
	www.fragmentsweb.org /stuff/palach.html (985 words)

	Opinion: The Prague Post Online
		Palach had been my near contemporary, brought up by loyal patriots who had seen their country annexed by the Nazis without a shot fired.
		Palach's death awoke the Czechs to their past, to the historical ties which bind them, and to the spiritual realities which the Communists had unceasingly denied.
		Palach's mother was told that she must join the Communist Party if her sons were to go to university, and so, in bitterness, she joined.
	www.praguepost.cz /opin011200b.html (904 words)

	A light at dusk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Jan Palach was born on 11 August, 1948, the younger of two sons of Josef and Libuše Palach.
		Jan’s early companions were his older brother Jiří, and Helena Zahradníkova, the daughter of one of the Palachs’ neighbors.
		Jan was taken to the burn clinic of a hospital on Legerova street.
	mujweb.cz /kultura/riverman/lightatdusk.html (1672 words)

	Spartanburg SC \| GoUpstate.com \| Spartanburg Herald-Journal
		Jan Palach (August 11, 1948 â“ January 19, 1969) was a Czech student who committed suicide by self-immolation as a political protest.
		Palach's mother was not allowed to deposit the urn in the local cemetery until 1974.
		After the Velvet Revolution, Palach (along with ZajÃc) was commemorated in Prague by a bronze cross embedded at the spot where he fell outside the National Museum, as well as a square named in his honour.
	www.goupstate.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Jan_Palach (538 words)

	VNTS - Jan Palach (3)
		Jan was their second son, their first son, Jiri, was born seven years earlier.
		Jan Palach werd geboren op 11 augustus 1948 in Melnik als jongste van 2 zonen van Josef en Libuse Palach.
		Jan Palach zei Jan Hus als een voorbeeld te hebben gezien voor zijn daad.
	www.vnts.nl /index.php/janpalach (1188 words)

	The spirit of Jan Palach
		It has been 37 years since a 20-years-old student of Charles University, Jan Palach, burned himself to death on this Wenceslas Square in protest against invading of Warsaw Pact's tanks.
		After Jan Palach, 26 people attempted suicide between January 20, 1969 and the end of April that year, seven of whom died.
		A bright light is seen middle of the image which may be a kind of leak and an inner ghost, but it is my guess that it is the spirit of Jan Palach, otherwise I am unable to explain the same phenomenon on four different shots at the memorial.
	www.suzfoto.com /one/one029_english.html (159 words)

	Palach memorial pages
		Student sculptor Olbram Zoubek secretly took a death mask of Palach and the next day brought the cast fastened to a fl disk to the Museum ramp, where university students held a funeral ceremony for Palach.
		From Jan. 16 to Palach's funeral on the 25th, a group of young people held a protest hunger strike at the statue of St. Wenceslas for the fulfillment of his demands.
		The attendance of Palach's funeral as well as the demonstrations connected with his act were an excuse for terrible repression and for dealing with personal files through various audits and so-called complex evaluations, which every citizen of an active age had to go through.
	archiv.radio.cz /palach99/eng (573 words)

	Jan Palach \| Životopisy online
		V roce 1963 začíná Jan Palach studovat na gymnáziu v Mělníku - zde patří, stejně jako na základní škole, k žákům průměrným, když jeho největší slabinou je ruský jazyk.
		Po tomto neúspěchu se pokouší Jan Palach o studium jiné vysoké školy a nakonec je přijat na Vysokou školu ekonomickou, kde pak od podzimu roku 1966 studuje.
		Jan Palach se rozhodne národ z této letargie vytrhnout a 16.
	zivotopisyonline.cz /jan-palach.php (671 words)

	american cinema foundation
		Jan Palach had hoped to force the public out of a passivity which had gradually overcome it after the defeat of attempts to re-introduce principles of democracy and free press.
		Jan Palach’s funeral became a huge nationwide demonstration and the police, at that time firmly governed by the new company of “orthodox” officials from the Czechoslovak Communist Party, could only look on speechless at the dignified mourning of the silent crowds walking through the streets of Prague behind Palach’s coffin.
		It may be, however, that somewhere up in heaven, Jan Palach, seeing these young people who have grown up in a completely different era and have never known subjugation, said to himself that he didn’t die in vain.
	www.cinemafoundation.com /free99/essay_freedom.html (833 words)

	Spotlight on Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Revolutionary Socialism of Jan Palach is a massive, environmentally stunning nation, renowned for its strong anti-business politics.
		Jan Palach's national animal is the Warsaw Pact, which is also the nation's favorite main course, and its currency is the Dubcek.
		Jan Palach is ranked 45th in the region and 49,756th in the world for Safest Nations.
	www.nationstates.net /-1/page=display_nation/nation=jan_palach (178 words)

	Guardian \| Ultimate sacrifice
		Jan Palach's self-immolation in Prague's Wenceslas Square was arguably the most dramatic suicide of the 20th century.
		Palach was in excruciating agony for three days before he succumbed to his 85 per cent burns.
		For several days his body lay in state in the hall of Charles University, placed deliberately near the statue of the religious reformer Jan Hus, burned at the stake in 1415 for asking for the Bible to be read in church in Czech.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3809980-103680,00.html (1385 words)

	Encounter - 20/07/2003: On Wenceslas Square
		In 1969 Jan Palach set himself alight in Wenceslas Square in Prague and ignited a protest movement against the Communist Government of Czechoslovakia.
		She knows what Jan Palach meant because forty years ago she was the doctor on duty in the emergency department when Jan Palach was brought in.
		The story of Jan Palach encapsulates a great deal of Czech distinctiveness: although the Czech Republic is perhaps one of the most secularized countries in Europe, religious thinkers and religious ideas have nourished its national consciousness.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/relig/enc/stories/s903259.htm (5166 words)

	Jan Palach in letters from Radio Prague listeners - 22-01-2006 - Radio Prague
		In today's special edition of Mailbox we read from listeners' letters dedicated to the memory of Jan Palach, a Czech student who burned himself to death on January 16, 1969 in Prague, to protest against the lethargy that prevailed in Czechoslovak society in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion in 1968.
		I read that Jan was part of a group of 8 students who all had planned to kill themselves by fire.
		Jan Palach studied history and political economics at the Faculty of Philosophy.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/74897 (1180 words)

	Mourning a martyr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		On 16 January 16, 1969, a 20-year-old Charles University student named Jan Palach doused himself with gasoline and set himself ablaze on Wenceslas Square in protest against the previous year’s Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia.
		Palach’s body lay in the university courtyard under a statue of Jan Hus, the Protestant preacher and reformer who was burned at the stake in 1415 for criticising the Catholic Church.
		While Jiří praises the idea of a memorial, which takes the form of two bronze ovals that point in the direction in which Jan Palach ran and support a holy cross, he is adamant that his brother should be remembered for his convictions.
	mujweb.cz /kultura/riverman/martyr.html (973 words)

	Young Czechs remember Jan Palach - 16-01-2006 - Radio Prague
		Pupils and staff from a secondary school named after Jan Palach in Prague were among those attending a commemoration ceremony in Vsetaty on Saturday.
		Jan Palach's self-immolation was an extreme act, and it has always been controversial.
		But I think personally that Jan Palach's act was a really brave act, and it was a symbol for people in the time after the invasion.
	www.radio.cz /en/article/74777 (875 words)

	Jan Palach, Czechoslovakia (1948-1969) - Hall of Freedom - Politics - Liberalism
		Jan Palach, Czechoslovakia (1948-1969) - Hall of Freedom - Politics - Liberalism
		As a protest against the August 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact forces, he burnt himself to death in Wenceslas Square, Prague on 16th January 1969.
		Huge popular demonstrations marking the 20th anniversary of his death were held in Prague in 1989.
	www.liberal-international.org /editorial.asp?ia_id=1009 (80 words)

	Hommage à Jan Palach - 17-01-2005 - Radio Prague
		Le 16 janvier 1969, Jan Palach, 21 ans, étudiant à la Faculté des lettres de l'Université Charles, s'immolait par le feu, sur la place Venceslas, en plein jour, au pied du Musée national.
		Jan Palach a recouru au sacrifice suprême pour signifier sa réprobation de l'occupation du pays par les troupes soviétiques et pour inciter la société à s'opposer à la « normalisation ».
		Peu après novembre 1989, le frère de Jan Palach, Jiri, a donné son autorisation, suite à une demande des étudiants, pour que les cendres de Jan Palach soient ramenées à Olsany.
	www.radio.cz /fr/article/62409 (567 words)

	.: The Honorary Maltese Consulate of the Czech Republic :.
		On the 3rd February 2004, the Consulate of the Czech Republic, the Maltese-Czech Society and the Kunsill Studenti Universitarji (KSU), will commemorate the 35th anniversary of the death of Jan Palach at the University of Malta, Tal-Qroqq.
		Jan Palace was a Czech University student who burnt himself alive rather than live under a Communist Regime.
		The Consulate of the Czech Republic in Malta, in association with the Maltese-Czech Society and with the co-operation of the University Student's Council - (KSU), will be commemorating "Jan Palach", the Czech philosophy student at Charles University, Prague, who in 1968 immolated himself in protest against the foreign occupation of his country.
	www.czech-malta.com /news/20040203.shtml (283 words)

	Prague - CITIES OF EUROPE - Prague
		Jan Hus brought the Reformation to Prague and the Catholics responded by building impressive churches.
		On january 16, 1969 Jan Palach burned himself on the Wenceslas Square as a protest against the Russian occupation and censorship.
		In the centre of the 'Old Town Square', an Art Nouveau sculpture representing a sea of bodies from which rises the majestic moral authority of Jan Hus (click: Detail), the church reformer that was executed by burning in 1415.
	www.netgate.co.uk /prague.htm (1802 words)

	JAN PALACH , FØDEBY : VSETATY , TJEKKIET
		Jan Palach blev født den 11 august 1948, hans fader og moder Josef og Libuse Palach havde deres egen forretning.
		I 1963 bestod Jan Palach adgangsprøven til gymnasiet i Melnik og her begyndte hans interesser og ideer at tage form, han var bl.a.
		Under hans studier i Prag besøgte Jan Palach regelmæssigt sin moder i Vsetaty og selvfølgelig var han hjemme omkring jul og nytår 1968.
	www.tjekinfo.dk /tjekkiet/kendtetjekker/tjekkiet_jan_palach.htm (363 words)

	BBC ON THIS DAY \| 26 \| 1969: Prague riots over student martyr
		The violence erupted as officers tried to disperse the crowd gathered at the foot of the Wenceslas Statue, to pay tribute to Jan Palach, the student who burned himself to death in protest at the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia.
		Palach was buried yesterday after a ceremony at Charles University, where he was studying philosophy.
		An estimated 500,000 people gathered in the rain to watch the funeral procession on its final journey to the cemetery at Olsany.
	news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/26/newsid_2506000/2506353.stm (405 words)

	Prag Jan Palach
		Fler unga följde senare hans exempel och när Jan Palach skulle begravas slöt 800 000 människor pragbor upp för att följa hans sista färd. Det blev den sista stora manifestationen innan "Pragvåren" under de följande månaderna definitivt gick mot sitt slut.
		När jag brukar guida vänner och bekanta runt i Prag stannar vi till vid minnesmärket för att hylla honom.
		Sedan tände vi på och säger: - För Jan Palach.
	www.czeckitout.com /nyastan9.htm (193 words)

	Jan Palach - Czech student who died for freedom after the 1968 Russian invasion of the Czech Republic
		Jan Palach - Czech student who died for freedom after the 1968 Russian invasion of the Czech Republic
		Jan Palach - Czech student who died for freedom in 1969.
		Jan Palach is buried in Prague at the Olsany cemetaries.
	www.janpalach.com (641 words)

	Kim Shkapich / A Memorial to Jan Palach Exhibition Announcement / 1991
		Kim Shkapich / A Memorial to Jan Palach Exhibition Announcement / 1991
		This image is one of over 108,000 from the AMICA Library (formerly The Art Museum Image Consortium Library- The AMICO Library™), a growing online collection of high-quality, digital art images from over 20 museums around the world.
		Visit www.davidrumsey.com/amica for more information on the collection, click on the link below the revolving thumbnail to the right, or email us at amica@luna-img.com.
	www.davidrumsey.com /amico/amico8211616-117133.html (263 words)

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