Jan Palach (Czech pronunciation: [jan ˈpalax]; 11 August 1948 – 19 January 1969) was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University...

Jan Palach Square (Czech: Náměstí Jana Palacha) is a town square in the Old Town of Prague. It is located on right bank of the Vltava River next to the...

Jan Palach is a Czech biographical film directed by Robert Sedláček. The film follows Jan Palach during 1968 and 1969 and shows the final 6 months of his...

Jan Palach Square Hostouň Klánovický les On 21 December 2023, 14 people were killed and 22 injured in a mass shooting at the main Faculty of Arts building...

part in a hunger strike and a commemoration ceremony by students for Jan Palach near the statue of Saint Wenceslas in Prague. On the day of the twenty-first...

several protest suicides by self-immolation (the most famous being that of Jan Palach), but no military resistance. Czechoslovakia remained a Soviet satellite...

video of this song, directed by W.I.Z., is dedicated to Czech student Jan Palach who in 1969 set himself on fire in protest against renewed Soviet suppression...

drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prague history student, Jan Palach, who set himself on fire in 1969 in protest against the Soviet occupation...

Bergedorf Observatory in Hamburg, Germany, and named after Czech student Jan Palach. Palach is a member of the Eos family (606), the largest asteroid family in...

24, 2024. Stach, Sabine; Troebst, Stefan; Palach, Jan; Brüsewitz, Oskar (2016). Vermächtnispolitik: Jan Palach und Oskar Brüsewitz als politische Märtyrer...

1977), Estonian footballer Jan Palach (1948–1969), Czech student self-immolated in 1969 protesting against the Soviet invasion Jan Peerce (1904-1984), American...

decorations. Siwiec's death preceded the much better known self-immolation of Jan Palach in Prague four months later. Siwiec was the first person from Central...

Republic. It is designed in the neo-Renaissance style and is situated on Jan Palach Square on the bank of the river Vltava. Since its opening in 1885, it...

self-immolation as a political protest. He is usually named together with Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc whose self-immolations were similar political protests as Plocek's...

it moved towards a more repressive approach to speech and dissent. Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc's protests against the end of the Prague Spring used self-immolation...

(1847–1941) – inventor, engineer and industrialist Jan Železný (1966–) – Olympic athlete Jan Palach (1948–1969) – protester against Soviet invasion of...

Pribićević (1875–1936), was a Croatian Serb politician in Austria-Hungary. Jan Palach (1948–1969), student who set himself on fire in Wenceslas Square (Prague)...

Airport in Mar del Plata, Argentina, killing 51. 1969 – Czech student Jan Palach commits suicide by self-immolation in Prague, Czechoslovakia, in protest...

Ankara Esenboğa Airport in Turkey, killing all 42 aboard. 1969 – Student Jan Palach dies after setting himself on fire three days earlier in Prague's Wenceslas...

website of Radio Prague International in Russia due to a report about Jan Palach from 2001. Battle for Czech Radio Czech Radio, the Czech publicly funded...

Myself called Kam tenkrát šel můj bratr Jan (Where Did My Brother Jan Go That Time), dedicated to Jan Palach, the student activist who killed himself...

but this trend was reversed by the Soviet occupation in 1968, which Jan Palach, a student of the faculty, protested against by setting himself on fire...

Krajowa veteran Ryszard Siwiec, as well as those of two Czech students, Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc, and of toolmaker Evžen Plocek, in protest against the Warsaw...

invasion of Czechoslovakia and he was deeply touched by the sacrifice of Jan Palach. Sozanský was active organizer of various unofficial meetings and artistic...

further researching public events at the nearby Rudolfinum building, Jan Palach square and other locations at the Prague Old Town. Kozák received a gift...

party membership by almost one-third. On 19 January 1969, the student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the invasion...

(362 km) journey at speeds of up to 110 miles per hour (180 km/h). Student Jan Palach set himself on fire in Prague's Wenceslas Square to protest the Soviet...

Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, last Shah of Iran, overdose of sleeping pills Jan Palach (1969), Czech student, self-immolation Mico Palanca (2019) Filipino actor...

strikes etc. More extreme forms include suicide such as the case of Jan Palach's, and Jan Zajíc's protests against the end of the Prague Spring and Kostas...

themselves to death. Similar events were reported in central Europe, such as Jan Palach and Ryszard Siwiec following the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia...