For the third time, Memorial of Silence commemorated the liquidation of the so-called Terezín family camp in Auschwitz-Birkenau. Once again we prepared a dignified commemorative concert, again in the Trade Fair Palace, the place of memory where the Jewish deportations had their beginning. The commemorative meeting was opened by Jiří Růžička, First Deputy President of …
During this time, we welcomed 1,200 visitors at the Bubny Railway Station and at the New World Order exhibition in the Karolinum. As part of the traditional spring event “We Are Open” in Prague 7, two theatrical productions in various stages of development were presented at the Bubny railway station. The literary and theatrical programme …
The guided tours took place within the festivals Open House Prague and We Are Open.
Actors: Hana Frejková, Přemysl Rut, René Levínský, Hana Malaníková, Bára Hančilová, Tomáš Kout, and others A stage reading of the play written by Eva Blechová on the journey of Winton’s Children that originated in the Author Workshop, House A, Rubín Studio was a part of We are open. The play of Eva Blechová is based …
Even the oppressive conditions at the Theresienstadt Ghetto and the impending transports to the east did not prevent the children and young people from being creative and living. The themed evening presented Theresienstadt Ghetto poems set to music, excerpts from secretly published periodicals, and the books by František Tichý Transport za věčnost (Transport Beyond Eternity) …
On Wednesday 18 May, after 6 p.m., Memorial of Silence opened its participation in the Open House Festival with a public discussion on the coordination of public space around the Bubny Railway Station. ARN STUDIO architects have presented the concept for the future public space between the station platform and the future track system for …
The opening ceremony for the multimedia exhibition New World Order took place in Prague’s Karolinum, a place which was not chosen at random, but because centres for racial quality assessments were mostly housed in the buildings of the Nazi-occupied Czech Charles University and its scientific institutes.
The historical parallel that exists today with the Nazi propaganda which preceded the Munich failure of Western diplomacy giving way to Hitler in 1938 is a serious stigma in early 2022. The seven-minute documentary can be found here and on the Facebook profile of Memorial of Silence. It features a chamber music concert, staged on …
The Briefly on Wannsee discussion session was the recollection of a “routine working meeting” of fifteen SS officers regarding the logistics of the Final Solution to the Jewish Question. On 20 January 2022, we offered two general questions to our selected guests:What is the essential legacy of the Wannsee Conference for you?What can its course, …
The original founding organization
Památník Šoa Praha, o. p. s. / Shoah Memorial Prague.
