{"id":26912,"date":"2025-01-29T12:47:31","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T11:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vize.cz\/?p=26912"},"modified":"2025-02-04T12:48:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T11:48:55","slug":"award-for-vaclav-havel-in-memoriam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vize.cz\/en\/award-for-vaclav-havel-in-memoriam\/","title":{"rendered":"Award for V\u00e1clav Havel in memoriam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has awarded its V\u00e1clav Benda Awards for the sixteenth time to fighters against totalitarian regimes.<\/p>\n<p>The award was also given posthumously to President V\u00e1clav Havel for his courageous civic stances during the communist totalitarian era and his active role in defending the values of freedom, democracy, and human rights, and for his significant contribution to the return of freedom and democracy in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>It was personally received by Mrs. Dagmar Havlov\u00e1 on Tuesday, January 28, 2025, during the ceremonial event at the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vize.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cena-Vaclava-Bendy-pro-VH-28.1.25.jpg\" class=\"thickbox\" data-rel=\"thickbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-26887\" src=\"https:\/\/www.vize.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cena-Vaclava-Bendy-pro-VH-28.1.25-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.vize.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cena-Vaclava-Bendy-pro-VH-28.1.25-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.vize.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cena-Vaclava-Bendy-pro-VH-28.1.25-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.vize.cz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Cena-Vaclava-Bendy-pro-VH-28.1.25.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes also awarded Mrs. Eda Kriseov\u00e1 and Messrs. Bohumil Dole\u017eal, Fedor G\u00e1l, Daniel Kroupa, Martin Palou\u0161, Petr Pithart, Petr Plac\u00e1k, and Jan Potm\u011b\u0161il for 2024. Additionally, for the same reasons, it honored former political prisoners and victims of persecution in the 1950s \u2013 Mrs. Milena Blatn\u00e1, Alexandra Sou\u010dkov\u00e1, and Bo\u017eena Pi\u0161t\u011bl\u00e1kov\u00e1, and Messrs. Ivo Klemp\u00ed\u0159 and Cyril Michalica. Lastly, it awarded Mrs. Alena \u0160im\u00e1nkov\u00e1 for defending the values of freedom, democracy, and human rights in the field of archival science, and V\u00e1clav Veber (posthumously) for his significant contribution to historical science in understanding contemporary history. For the first time in history, the laureates received not only a commemorative medal but also a crystal glass trophy in the shape of a heart, specially created for this occasion by renowned Czech glass artist Ji\u0159\u00ed Pa\u010dinek.<\/p>\n<p>The ceremonial event was hosted with traditional elegance by moderator Marek Eben, accompanied by the Eve Quartet with soloist Michaela R\u00f3zsa R\u016f\u017ei\u010dkov\u00e1. The event was traditionally attended by V\u00e1clav Benda&#8217;s wife, Mrs. Kamila. The event was held under the auspices of the First Deputy Speaker of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Ji\u0159\u00ed Draho\u0161, and the Deputy Speaker of the Senate of the Parliament of the Czech Republic, Ji\u0159\u00ed Oberfalzer, and as in the previous year, it was also possible to watch it via an online stream on the \u00daSTR YouTube channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes has awarded its V\u00e1clav Benda Awards for the sixteenth time to fighters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - 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