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Representatives of the Prague 8 district approved the granting of honorary citizenship to four personalities this week. Among them is Olympian Věra Čáslavská, who was born and grew up in Karlín. Other honorary citizens for this year are Eva Foglová, Jaroslav Čvančara and Josef Zumr.
Čáslavská was born and grew up in Karlín
Prague 8 awards honorary citizenship every year. Among the previous awardees are, for example, theater actor and founder of the Archa theater Ondřej Hrab, František Suchý, who during the Second World War contributed to the documentation of the fates of a number of Czech patriots executed by the Nazis, or boxer Rostislav Osička.
The seven-time winner in gymnastics, Věra Čáslavská, also left a mark in history by not being afraid to stand up to the communist regime. In 1968, just like the Zátopeks, for example, she signed the manifesto Two thousand words.
Tuesday, May 3, 2022, 1:10 p.m
Věra Čáslavská has a new commemorative plaque in Prague. Today, she was discovered at her birthplace in Sokolovská street in Karlín. The initiators planned the ceremonial unveiling on the day when we commemorate the 80th birthday of the bravest Czech gymnast…
The representatives unanimously agreed to grant Čáslav honorary citizenship in memoriam. “She was born and grew up in Karlín. Her beginnings in sports also come with Karlín. In addition, this year we commemorate the 80th anniversary of her birth. On this occasion, we also unveiled a commemorative plaque at her birthplace in Sokolovská Street in Karlín, and I think that the honorary citizen of the district clearly deserves the award.” the mayor of Prague 8 explained in a press release Ondrej Gros (ODS).
Čáslavská has been an honorary citizen of Prague 6 since 2017, and the elementary school in Petřiny is also named after her. The commemorative plaque was ceremoniously unveiled on the facade of her birthplace in Sokolovská street at the beginning of May this year.
Educator, writer and philosopher
Among the new honorary citizens of the district is also Eva Foglová, a long-time teacher, trainer and organizer at Sokol Libeň. In her classes, she promoted modern gymnastics, jazz gymnastics and yoga, her courses have been passed by clients of all generations over the decades.
Jaroslav Čvančara, who also received honorary citizenship, is a Czech writer, publicist, teacher, researcher and musician. “He is a researcher who deals with the issue of the assassination of Heydrich and the related issues of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich and related issues (Czech anti-Nazi resistance, Heydrichiad, extermination of Lidice, Operation Anthropoid, etc.), on which he has already published three publications,” stated the press spokesman of Prague 8 Martin Šalek in a press release. Currently, Čvančara works as a researcher at the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, where he studies Czechoslovak domestic and foreign resistance.
The fourth awardee was the philosopher, historian and literary scholar Josef Zumr. Shortly after his studies, he joined the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, where he studied philosophy. He was released during normalization and made a living by translating, he returned after the Velvet Revolution. He is a member of the International Association of Philosophers, you contribute to a number of journals. It deals with the development of revolutionary democratism of the 19th century as well as aesthetics.