Ďáblice Cemetery

In 2014 the body of P. Josef Toufar was identified and exhumed from one of the mass graves in the course of his beatification.

There is serious intention to declare this part of the cemetery a national monument.

This initiative is hampered by the objection that, apart from thousands of the victims of Nazism and hundreds of the victims of communism, the mass graves also contain thousands of bodies or body parts of unknown people who died in Prague hospitals and were subsequently used for pathological or academic autopsies.

[4][5] The bodies of Jan Kubiš and Jozef Gabčík, the assassins of Reinhard Heydrich in 1942, were secretly buried in a mass grave in this cemetery after they were hunted down by German nazi troops.

In 2014 there were calls for their remains to be removed from the cemetery and be given a dignified burial fitting "the heroes of anti-Nazi resistance".