The Milada Horáková Club announced a competition for the design of a monument in Ztracenka

Prague - The Club of Milada Horáková has announced an artistic competition for the design of a monument to the victims of totalitarianism, symbolized by the executed lawyer Horáková. At the same time, a fundraising campaign for its creation has been launched. The monument should be erected within three years in the Ztracenka park near Albertov. This was reported on the website of the Prague 2 city district. On the eve of last year's November 17th, a monument to Milada Horáková was unveiled by the Chamber of Deputies, taking the form of a lectern in a courtroom, with a little bird sitting on its microphone.

"The monument will be placed in the Ztracenka garden, which is located within the Prague heritage reserve, lying under Karlov between Albertov and Horská streets. A circular flowerbed on the southern edge of the garden has been designated for the monument," stated the city district on the website.

The Ztracenka garden between the walls near the police museum and the genetic garden of the Faculty of Science at Charles University was converted into a park in 2010. The park, which has benches, is accessible from Horská street or from the upper part of Albertov street through the mathematics faculty campus.

The new monument to Milada Horáková by sculptor Josef Faltus was unveiled at Pětikostelní náměstí near the Chamber of Deputies on November 16th last year. This was also funded through a public fundraising campaign. Faltus depicted the memorial as a pen box for the accused in the courtroom with a microphone on which a bird sits.

The lawyer and National Socialist MP Milada Horáková was hanged by the communist regime for alleged espionage and high treason in 1950 based on a verdict from a fabricated trial. Along with her, 12 other people were tried, who allegedly formed a spy center. Horáková participated in the anti-Nazi resistance during World War II. She actively opposed the communist regime as well.

In honor of Horáková, a monument with a bust was created in Prague in 2009 in the park at Hrdinů Square in Prague 4, not far from the Pankrác prison and courthouse building.