What will happen once the war in Ukraine is over? How to renew postwar life – both politically and economically? This public discussion on the future of the war-ravaged country was organized by the Memorial of Silence in the departure hall of Bubny station, as usual with student participation. The public discussion, titled The Day …
Bubny Station Broadcasts The Day after the War 11. 5. 2023 Read More »
A part of our long-running educational project From Witness to Parable, the place of memory at Bubny Station hosted a seminar for teachers about the search for ways of interpreting stories of the past through theater and film. On Saturday 22 April 2023, the DOX Centre for Contemporary Art hosted a dramaturgical theater workshop, where …
From Witness to Parable
Seminar: 18 April 2023
Drama workshop: 22 April 2023 Read More »
The Memorial of Silence has spent the past five years collaborating on coordinating the public spaces adjoining the place of memory at Bubny Station. A series of working meetings for the land-use development of Prague 7 produced plans for a park named after Petr Ginz. Seen from the railway tracks, the park will be dominated …
Time of Silence – Transporting a stone from the Liberec quarry
22 March 2023 Read More »
After being replaced by video events during Covid, the Memorial of Silence’s traditional memorial event returns to the station hall.The concert in memory of the Terezín Family Camp was combined with the presentation of a unique photograph discovered in the G.T. Album. The photograph, which shows a scene from the Terezín railway siding, was symbolically …
The Memorial of Silence’s second opinion forum was held at the mayor’s residence, where important personalities presented brief (no more than seven-minute) reflections with timeless meaning. Today’s disinformation war is a distinctive part of the public space, social networks, and domestic and international media. In this year’s public discussions, the Memorial of Silence is exploring …
The traditional lighting of the first candle was held at Bubny station with the participation of Minister of Culture Martin Baxa, Vice-Chairman of the Chamber of Deputies Jan Bartošek, and many other important guests. The candle on the Memorial of Silence’s menorah was lit by Chief Rabbi of the Czech Republic Karol Efraim Sidon and …
The Šarbilach orchestra’s autumn concert series continued with a performance for the Memorial of Silence at Bubny Station. The event was also an opportunity to remember the orchestra’s recently deceased founder, Jaromír Vogel. The concert has been made possible thanks to a contribution from the Endowment Fund for the Victims of the Holocaust, which is …
Bubny Station’s departures hall hosted the Přírodní Škola secondary school with their original performance titled A Visit from Prehistory. This excellently prepared and well-acted production commemorated the 80th anniversary of the deportation of Petr Ginz from Bubny to Terezín. Three sold-out performances encourage us to honor the legacy of the child hero of the ghetto. …
From Witness to Parable
A Visit from Prehistory
21–22 October 2022 Read More »
Bubny Station hosted a mini-seminar to which the Memorial of Silence invited several colleagues from other memory institutions. The goal of this seminar was to share experiences and to evaluate a recent trip by the Memorial of Silence’s organizing team to Poland. New museum institutions are lifting our northern neighbor to the top of the …
Narrative – Story – Experience
20 October 2022 at 4pm Read More »
This year, drumming against the silent majority on the anniversary of the first Jewish transport to leave Prague finally also resounded against the silent stillness of the area surrounding Bubny Station. For many years, we have been promising that we will soon begin converting Bubny Station into the Memorial of Silence, and we no longer …
The original founding organization
Památník Šoa Praha, o. p. s. / Shoah Memorial Prague.
