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]]> 2022-06-15 13:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/fgabard/vodh4j9t9ca61g3j/wish/2221948680 Prague the capital of Czech Republic evbab https://padlet.com/fgabard/vodh4j9t9ca61g3j/wish/2222001909 Important days in Czech Republic without days off: 
16. 1. Jan Palach Memorial Day
In 1969, the Czech student Jan Palach self-immolated to stir his compatriots. He called himself "Torch No. 1" and warned the leaders of Czechoslovakia that others would follow his example if change did not come.
27. 1. Holocaust Remembrance Day and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity
On the morning of 27 January 1945 the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps still held some 7,000 prisoners. Over a million people deported to Auschwitz perished there. It is estimated that six million Jews were exterminated in the death camps.
The Council of Europe was the moving spirit behind the introduction of a Day of Holocaust Remembrance and Prevention of Crimes against Humanity.
8. 3. International Women's Day
March 8th is International Women's Day, not that you'd notice it in the Czech Republic. Throughout the years of Communist rule, it was a major event.
9. 3. Remembrance Day for the Victims of the Terezín Family Camp in Auschwitz – Brezince 
The Theresienstadt family camp (Czech: Terezínský rodinný tábor, German: Theresienstädter Familienlager), also known as the Czech family camp, consisted of a group of Jewish inmates from the Theresienstadt ghetto in Czechoslovakia, who were held in the BIIb section of the Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camp from 8 September 1943 to 12 July 1944. The Germans created the camp to mislead the outside world about the Final Solution.
Most of the inhabitants who did not die of starvation or disease were murdered during the camp liquidations on 8–9 March and 10–12 July 1944. The first liquidation was the largest massacre of Czechoslovak citizens in history. Of the 17,517 Jews deported to the family camp, only 1,294 survived the war.
12. 3. Day of accession of the Czech Republic to NATO
The Czech Republic successfully completed its accession talks and began a NATO member country, on 12 March 1999, which has been observed as the Day of Accession to NATO in the Czech Republic since. 
28. 3. Jan Amos Komenskiy Birthday (Teachers' Day)
March 28 is the birthday of Jan Amos Komensky (1592-1670; his name is also rendered John Comenius), a noted educational reformer and theologian in the former Czechoslovakia. It has been traditional for children to honor him on Teachers' Day, or Komensky Day, by bringing flowers and gifts to their teachers. The day is also observed with lectures, music, and educational activities.
7. 4. Education Day
On this day in 1348, King Charles IV of Bohemia and Rome founded the first university in Central Europe (today´s Charles University), which at that time consisted of 4 faculties. The founding of Charles University is a symbol of the flourishing of education, the significance of which is to be commemorated each year on April 7.
5. 5. May uprising of the Czech people
By 1945, partisan forces in Czechoslovakia numbered roughly 7,500 people. The Allied armies were closing in, and resistance fighters saw an opportunity to act. On May 5, the uprising in Prague began when Czech police officers burst into a radio station and began fighting with the SS troops occupying the building. Upon hearing the noise, Czech broadcasters began calling for citizens to rise up against the Nazis. By the end of the uprising’s first day the insurgents held most of the city, including broadcasting buildings, railway stations, and multiple bridges.
The Prague Uprising stands as a seminal moment in Czechoslovak history. Over 30,000 Czech civilians and resistance members took the streets, constructing 2,049 barricades in an attempt to liberate and protect their city. The fighting was violent and brutal; war crimes were committed on both sides. But, 75 years later, Czechs who partook in the uprising find themselves labeled as heroes within their national history and are remembered for their final stand against their oppressors.
15. 5. Family Day
Founded by the United Nations (UN) in 1994, the International Day of Families is observed every May 15 to honor the importance of families. Families—both traditional and non-traditional—are the foundation of society.
10. 6. Extermination of the village Lidice
On the morning of Wednesday, 10 June 1942, the village of Lidice, about 20 km North-West of Prague, was destroyed in retaliation for the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, the highest-ranking Nazi official in the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia.
The world first learned about Lidice via a brutally detached Nazi radio announcement broadcast the day after the attack:
“All male inhabitants have been shot. The women have been transferred to a concentration camp. The children have been taken to educational centers. All houses of Lidice have been leveled to the ground, and the name of this community has been obliterated.”
All 172 men and boys over age 16 in the village were shot. The women were sent to concentration camps, 53 of whom did not survive them. The children from Lidice, 82 of them, were gassed to death in a mobile gas chamber at a deportation camp.
The village was then destroyed building by building with explosives, then completely leveled until not a trace remained, with seeds being planted over the flattened soil. The name was then removed from all German maps.
The Nazis even dug up the town’s cemetery. They dumped massacre victims into a mass grave dug by prisoners from Terezin, a nearby concentration camp, and gleefully filmed the aftermath of the annihilation. This footage would soon become Nazi propaganda designed to quell further resistance.
Today, Lidice—a small town of about 540 residents, rebuilt alongside a memorial and museum commemorating the tragedy—stands in defiance of the Nazis’ attempted extermination: 82 larger-than-life bronze statues, each representing a lost child of Lidice, greet visitors. 
27. 6. Memorial Day of the Victims of the Communist Regime
Commemoration Day for the Victims of the Communist Regime (Den památky obětí komunistického režimu) is observed in the Czech Republic on June 27. This remembrance day honors all those who died under the Communist regime in Czechoslovakia.
Commemoration Day for the Victims of the Communist Regime was established in 2004. The date of June 27 was selected to pay homage to Milada Horáková, a political activist who was executed by Communists on that day in 1950. Horáková was a member of the Constituent National Assembly of Czechoslovakia.
The anniversary of her execution was declared a remembrance day.  
21. 8. Remembrance Day of the Victims of the Invasion of 1968
During the night of August 20-21st 1968, nearly half a million Soviet-led troops from the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia to crush the Prague Spring, a vast program of liberalization reforms implemented by Alexander Dubcek. The invasion remains one of the most tragic dates in Czechoslovak modern history.
August 21st a national remembrance day in honour of the victims of the 1968 Soviet-led invasion and occupation of Czechoslovakia.
11. 11. War Veterans Day
The history of the Veterans Day is linked with the end of World War I on November 11th, 1918. That day became, in the memory of the victims of the deadliest war the mankind had experienced by then, the Veterans Day in democratic countries of Europe, in the United States and Canada. In the Czech Republic, the Veterans Day is officially celebrated from November 2001.
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moveable - Easter Monday
moveable - Ascension Day
moveable - Whit Monday
15. 08. Assumption of Mary
01. 11. All Saints' Day
25. 12. Christmas Day

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1. 1. Day of Renewal of the Independent Czech State 
This happened on January 1, 1993, based on the resolution of the Federal Assembly on the division of the Federal Republic (ČSFR) into two independent states - the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
1. 5. Labor Day
Labor Day - May Day has been celebrated since 1890. A year earlier, Labor Day was declared as a celebration to commemorate the outbreak of the Chicago workers' strike, so the origin of this holiday goes back to the USA.
8. 5. Victory Day 
One of the main events in the history of not only the Czech Republic but also Europe falls on the 8th of May. May 8, 1945 marks the end of World War II. This happened thanks to the capitulation of Germany.
5. 7. Day of the Slavic Prophets
The co-patrons of Europe - Cyril and Methodius (Constantine and Methodius) came from Thessaloniki to Great Moravia in the 9th century. These Slavic evangelists created a script - Glaholics and established Old Slavonic as the official language - at that time as the language of Worship Service.
6. 7. Burning day of master Jan Hus
Master Jan Hus was born around 1370 in Husinc and was a Roman Catholic priest, reformer and preacher and undoubtedly one of the most important Czech medieval thinkers. He taught at the University of Prague and criticized the moral decline of the church in his religious works, for which the Catholic Church labeled him a heretic. This was followed by the Council of Kostnica, where he was condemned as a heretic and subsequently burned, because he refused to refute his teachings.
28. 9. Czech Statehood Day
Czech Statehood Day reminds us of the event from 935, when Prince Václav was murdered by his brother in Stará Boleslav. Until 1951, St. Wenceslas Day was a memorable day. We have been commemorating it as a public holiday and at the same time as a day off from work since 2000, when this day was recognized by law and given the official designation - Czech Statehood Day - St. Wenceslas.
28. 10. Day of the Establishment of the Independent Czechoslovak State
The independent Czechoslovak state was proclaimed on 28 October 1918. It was one of the successor states of the disintegrated Austria-Hungary. Czechoslovakia at the time included the territory of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia (specifically its south-eastern part, the so-called Czech Silesia), Slovakia and Subcarpathian Rus (formerly called Upper Hungary.) We also owe the creation of the First Republic to the first president - TGM - Tomáš Garigue Masaryk. From 1945 (i.e. after the Second World War), our territory consisted of Bohemia, Moravia, Silesia and Slovakia, no longer including Subcarpathian Russia (sometimes also called Zakarpattia).
17. 11. Day of the Struggle for Freedom and Democracy
Two events are relevant to this date, the first from 1939, when Czech universities were closed by the Nazis. This happened after the funeral of Jan Opletal, whose act was a manifestation of resistance against the German occupation. Hitler subsequently ordered that all demonstrations be suppressed by force. Subsequently, universities were closed and 9 leading university student leaders were executed. The second one, which most of us remember, is related to 1989, to the student protests on Národní třída, which were violently suppressed by the hands of Public Security and thereby launched the Velvet Revolution.  
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1. 1. New Year
It is a nice custom to send New Year's cards, the so-called PF - means Pour féliciter, translated For happiness.
Moveable - Good Friday
Good Friday is celebrated in memory of Christ’s Passion, crucifixion, and death. The most important Good Friday symbol is the crucifix, or cross, which represents the way in which Jesus died. Other symbols of Good Friday include black cloth used to cover the cross, paintings and statues in churches and some homes to signify mourning. 
Moveable - Easter Monday
For people with strong Christian beliefs, the cross that Jesus was crucified on and his resurrection are important symbols of the period around Easter. Other symbols of Easter include real eggs or eggs manufactured from a range of materials, nests, lambs and rabbits or hares. 
24. 12. Christmas Eve
For many, December 24 (Štědrý den) is the most enjoyable day of Christmas holidays. Its Czech name literally means "Generous Day", probably for the wealth of food that has traditionally been served for Christmas dinner and fed to household and farm animals. 
December 24 is Adam and Eva's name day. Christmas Eve is associated with many superstitions that usually relate to life, love, and destiny that awaits one in the year to come. According to one Czech Christmas custom, one is supposed to fast all day to see the "golden piglet" (zlaté prasátko) in the evening.  
25. 12. 1. Christmas holiday
According to Christian traditions, the first holiday of Christmas, or Christmas Eve, which falls on December 25, should remind us of the birth of Jesus Christ. According to the Bible, this happened in Bethlehem, located not far from Jerusalem, where the girl Mary traveled with her fiancé Joseph for the census. Today, this festive day is carried in the spirit of family visits and feasting. The gifts that Santa left under the tree for relatives and friends are also being delivered.
26. 12. 2. Christmas holiday
The feast of St. Stephen commemorates the first martyr St. Stephen and is celebrated on December 26. In the Czech Republic, it is also known by its non-religious name as the 2nd Christmas holiday.
In the Czech lands, the holiday of St. Stephen's Day combined with a traditional Christmas carol.
Saint Stephen was one of the first seven deacons of the first Christian community in Jerusalem, who, according to the Acts of the Apostles, fearlessly spoke about the resurrection of Jesus Christ. He was stoned for claiming before the Sanhedrin that the Jews were guilty of Jesus' death and that Jesus was equal to God. The judgment was carried out between the years 35 and 37 in front of the Damascus Gate to Jerusalem.
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1. 1. New Years's Day
1.5. Labour Day
8. 5. Victory Day
14.5. Bastille Day
11.11. Armistice


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