9 March 2015
The Sculpture ´GATE OF INFINITY´ was unveiled on March 9, 2015 at 4 p.m. in front of the Bubny train station building.
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The initial stage of the Bubny project has been completed by the architectural study. The next step leading to the renovation of the railway station, which is closely linked to the history of Jewish transports from Prague, was the statue unveiling event. The statue’s working title is a paraphrase of the foundation stone. The monumental object by sculptor Aleš Veselý was installed as a gate on the way of the war transports to deportation trains.
The track with sleepers pointing towards the sky symbolizes the Jacob’s ladder. The sculpture is 20 meters high. The installation highlights the fact that the railway station, that carries the tragic fate of almost fifty thousand Jews of Prague, is ready for the renovation phase. Now it is only a matter of financing, whether the project will meet the deadline and be opened on the occasion of the anniversary of the first transports from Prague in autumn of 2016.
The non-profit organization Shoah Memorial Prague was founded in 2012 with one fundamental objective: to transfor the railway station Bubny into a Holocaust memorial called the Memorial of Silence, Bubny.
Pavel Štingl, Director of the Shoah Memorial Prague.
Tomáš Bouška, Head of Development of the Shoah Memorial Prague.
Leoš Válka, Director of DOX Center for Contemporary Art, the main partner of the „Foundation Track“ Sculpture.
