This year, the area surrounding Bubny Station was transformed from Prague’s largest brownfield into its largest construction site. With this, the space for our interventions into what we lovingly called the trash heap of history has come to an end. Although there is hope for the station building’s new role as a place of memory, …
Opening of the exhibition Gates of Memory
9. 10. 2023 Read More »
In this edition of Bubny Station Broadcasts Radka Denemarková, author and historianBarbora Stárková, Korzo národníMatyáš Borovský, history teacher at the Amazon secondary school and moderator Karolína Koubová reflected on commemorations of important past events, the teaching of history, and ceremonial forms of mourning… What comes to mind when you hear the phrase “memorial ceremony”? Radka …
Bubny Station Broadcasts
Ceremonies, Mourning, and Instagram
12. 10. 2023 Read More »
With this summer concert commemorating the liquidation of the Terezín family camp, the Memorial of Silence once again expanded the range of its activities. With his performance in the Large Courtyard of Prague’s Trade Fair Palace, distinguished Czech-American conductor Petr Kotík brought a distinctive classical music experiment to the Memorial’s music series, one moreover intended as …
Remembrance of BIIb Large Courtyard
Trade Fair Palace
27. 7. 2023 Read More »
The Memorial of Silence hosted the launch and presentation of František R. Kraus’s new book The Seventh Veil: Pages from One Century, the third title by the author to be published by the Cattacan publishing house. Cattacan previously published two successful titles by Kraus: Povídky ze svrabové čtvrti (Tales from the Mangy Quarter) and A …
Book launch
Sedmý závoj: Listy z jednoho století
27. 6. 2023 Read More »
The Memory of Nations’ Theater Festival presented performances by theater clubs from Prague and elsewhere in the Czech Republic that explored stories from recent history. The event was organized as part of the long-term educational project From Witness to Parable.
As part of the long-term educational project From Witness to Parable, Bubny Station hosted a theater festival of plays by student ensembles, followed by a discussion with professional theater artists. Students from the Přírodní Škola secondary school presented Bells of Terezín (František Tichý) and The Chalk Cross (Bertolt Brecht), and the Otevřeno primary school from …
From Witness to Parable
Theater festival
6. 6. 2023 Read More »
The latest discussion in the Bubny Station Broadcasts series looked at the alarming growth of antisemitism. On hand to discuss this topic were the chairperson of Memory of Nations Jan Dobrovský, journalist and commentator Jan Fingerland, and analyst for the Prague-based Soft Targets Protection Institute Tereza Šternová. The event was moderated by Irena Kalhousová, director …
Bubny Station Broadcasts
Antisemitism Past and Present
25. 5. 2023 Read More »
After many years of planning, the area around the Memorial of Silence is being transformed from the city’s largest brownfield into an expansive modern neighborhood. After countless discussions relating to transportation, height limits, and greenery, now the time has come to address the identity of the city and how it is reflect in the public …
Bubny Station Broadcasts
The Boundaries of Places of Memory
18. 5. 2023 Read More »
As part of our long-term educational project “From Witness to Parable,” we joined with the Přírodní Škola secondary school to organize an art seminar at which students could create their own vision of the future surroundings of Bubny Station. Their task was to come up with a design for the planned Petr Ginz Park. Also …
From Witness to Parable An art seminar for schools
15. 5. 2023 Read More »
During the Book World literature festival, Bubny Station traditionally hosts presentations of selected books associated with stories associated with our place of memory. This year, we presented several books that shared the theme of the (non-)lives experienced by Prague citizens after their deportation from the city. The four titles were: Radek Gális’s Uvězněné duše, Jana …
Concert for Memories and a literary gathering
11. 5. 2023 Read More »
The original founding organization
Památník Šoa Praha, o. p. s. / Shoah Memorial Prague.
