The cemetery in Ďáblice has a black past – eXtra.cz
In the last part of the series about the mysterious places of Prague, we went to the so-called cemetery of fools, an old defunct cemetery near the Bohnice hospital. To today’s, about darker knowledge, it is not far from the Bohnice cemetery. The cemetery in Ďáblice has a really black past. The Communists buried the victims of their bloody regime here. We find here Father Toufar, but also the children of a woman who was born in prison and never got a chance at a normal life. It was here that the two criminal regimes got rid of the uncomfortable people.
The grave is sometimes a relatively inaccurate word, because it was simply an excavated hole measuring five times two meters and a depth of two and a half meters. Trucks came here at night, and the bodies were filled to the brim approaching the body. The cemetery attendant at the time said that similar trucks full of bags were no challenge. The Communists managed to throw up to two hundred bodies into one grave. Unfortunately, the word bury here is out of place.
Nazis and communists
In the Devil’s Cemetery, both criminal regimes in our country were buried in the twentieth century. First the Nazi, then the Communist. Both opponents of the regimes and perpetrators of violent crimes have found their last rest here, but also people to whom none of the relatives simply signed up. In total, over fourteen thousand people are buried here and only a small part of them have been identified. Some of the stories speak for themselves.
Ten coffins, a layer of lime and planks
One of them is the case of MP Stanislav Broj, who fell victim to a fabricated accusation of preparing a prison riot. The regime had him executed and placed in a mass grave in Ďáblice. His family was one of those who found out where their father’s remains were stored. There is definitely no question of a proper funeral. “In those Devils, it was practiced to dig a shaft, put ten coffins, a layer of lime and a plank. Those shafts contained about thirty coffins. “ describes the son of the corrected Jan Broj for the project website The memory of the nationwhich similar stories of totalitarianism promised.
They had to cut to the grave
“The identification was such that when the shaft covered, a stick and a number plate were placed. My father was number seventeen there. It was the seventeenth shaft, there were about thirty-one. Every year we went to the grave, we put flowers, candles and so on. It was left there like in the rainforest, we had to cut a path to get to that place, “ says Broj. However, the efforts of various institutions are to change this situation and the place has acquired a dignified appearance, but it has even succeeded in compiling lists of those buried here. Although they are not and never will be complete, for the families of some buried here, this is the only mention of her beloved relatives.
Ghostly burial ground of soldiers
However, there are not only monuments to the persecuted. A memorial to Czech and foreign soldiers from the Second World War is also very impressive and impressive. Even for them, we do not always know the name, age or date of death. The stones with available information serve here as tombstones and the places that are hidden behind a high hedge are dominated by a birch cross. Even though he remembers crazy things here, he goes without discussion one of the strangest and quietest places in Prague.
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