On the eve of the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Communist Regime, an Open Day was held on Monday 26 June 2023 at the House of the Pardons at Hradčany. The event was organized by the Museum of the Memory of the XXth Century with the support of the City of Prague. Prague. The programme included the presentation of a new book by Jiří Sozanský Valdice / Condemned to Non-existence, dedicated to the prisoners of Valdice. This was followed by a concert in the courtyard by the band Svatopluk, which plays the songs of the late evangelical pastor and underground singer and poet Svati Karásek in rock arrangements. The recording of this event is divided into three parts.
Program:
6:00 p.m. opening of the Open Day Petr Blažek, Hana Kordová Marvanová, Olga Sozanská
6.15 p.m. presentation of Jiří Sozanský's new book Valdice / Condemned to Non-existence the book was introduced by Olga Sozanská and Jan Wiendl excerpts were read by Veronika Bendová, Petr Blažek and Jan Wiendl screening of the documentary Valdice, dir. Pavel Marek, 1990
7:30 p.m. Concert by Svatopluk