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Ďáblice cemetery (Czech: Ďáblický hřbitov) is a graveyard in Ďáblice municipal district, Prague. The entrance pavilions were designed by Vlastislav Hofman.
The cemetery was opened in 1914 and over 20,000 registered graves are located here. Apart of this single and family graves there are about 70 mass-graves containing bodies of over 14,000 people. Since 1943 the Czech people executed by Nazis or killed while fighting Nazis were buried there, since 1945 the executed Nazi criminals and since 1948 the people who were executed or died in communist prisons. 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 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 contain also thousands of bodies or bodyparts of unknown people who died in Prague hospitals and were subsequently used for the pathological or academic autopsies.