The tomb of Jan Palach. (by Joffley)

Palach was initially interred in Olšany Cemetery. As his gravesite grew into a national shrine, the Czechoslovak secret police set out to destroy any memory of Palach’s deed and exhumed his remains during the night on October 25, 1973. His body was then cremated and sent to his mother in Palach’s native town of Všetaty while an anonymous old woman from a rest home was laid in the grave. Palach’s mother was not allowed to deposit the urn in the local cemetery until 1974. On October 25, 1990 the urn was officially returned to its initial site in Prague. (wiki)

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