Jan Palach
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Jan Palach was a Czech student of history and political economics at Charles University in Prague. His self-immolation in 1969 at the age of 20 was a political protest against the Warsaw Pact invasion
The memorial to Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc in front of the National Museum during the 25th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution
Palach's funeral (a small group of mourners photographed by Miloň Novotný) turned into a major protest against the occupation.
The memorial to Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc in front of the National Museum on Wenceslas Square by the Czech artist Barbora Veselá
Memorial in Jan Palach Square (Faculty of Arts).
Jan Zajíc
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Jan Zajíc was a Czech student who killed himself by self-immolation as a political protest.
Jan Palach
…whether he really said that. The funeral of Palach turned into a major protest against the occupation. A month later, on 25 February, another student, Jan Zajíc, burned himself to death in the same place. This was followed in April of the same year by Evžen Plocek in Jihlava, and by others. People in other…
Portrait on a memorial plaque
The memorial to Jan Palach and Jan Zajíc in front of the National Museum