Fifty thousand Czech Jews were deported from the Prague-Bubny railway station for liquidation.
They walked by the thousands through a city that was silent…
Prague needs a place where these things can be discussed, where it would be possible to talk about ourselves and the stigmas of the past within us.
Jews and the nobility have something in common; they are both like endangered species
(from Karel Schwarzenberg’s conversations with Karel Hvížďala)
As Karel Schwarzenberg joins other pipe collectors in heaven, the Memorial of Silence mourns one of the founding members of its honorary board. It was a great honor that this prince of the Czech lands lent us his trust and joined us in drumming against the silence of passively looking on at events that one cannot remain silent about. He did not watch on passively.
We are glad that Karel Jan Nepomuk of Schwarzenberg chose to be laid to rest in Bohemia, a land from which he was expelled and to which he returned. In this way, his journey mirrored the stories of our place of memory at Bubny Station.
(Pavel Štingl)
„The illusion of our scruples to participate in evil is the same as before.“
Fifty thousand Czech Jews were deported from the Prague-Bubny railway station for liquidation.
They walked by the thousands through a city that was silent…
Prague needs a place where these things can be discussed, where it would be possible to talk about ourselves and the stigmas of the past within us.
Jews and the nobility have something in common; they are both like endangered species
(from Karel Schwarzenberg’s conversations with Karel Hvížďala)
As Karel Schwarzenberg joins other pipe collectors in heaven, the Memorial of Silence mourns one of the founding members of its honorary board. It was a great honor that this prince of the Czech lands lent us his trust and joined us in drumming against the silence of passively looking on at events that one cannot remain silent about. He did not watch on passively.
We are glad that Karel Jan Nepomuk of Schwarzenberg chose to be laid to rest in Bohemia, a land from which he was expelled and to which he returned. In this way, his journey mirrored the stories of our place of memory at Bubny Station.
(Pavel Štingl)
„The illusion of our scruples to participate in evil is the same as before.“
Fifty thousand Czech Jews were deported from the Prague-Bubny railway station for liquidation.
They walked by the thousands through a city that was silent…
Prague needs a place where these things can be discussed, where it would be possible to talk about ourselves and the stigmas of the past within us.
What's coming up
„Words are not enough.“
„It is not true that the worst has already happened.“
