What happened overview

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 »

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 Light of a New Hope
18. 12. 2022 Read More »

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 …

Šarbilach
Concert of Jewish music
16. 11. 2022 Read More »

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 …

Drumming for Bubny
16 October 2022 at 5pm Read More »

A discussion evening about interventions into public space and about the Memorial of Silence’s dialogue with Prague’s largest brownfield, which is now coming to an end. In the spring of 2023, extensive renovation works will begin on the train tracks at and around Bubny-Zátory station. The Memorial of Silence, too, will begin its renovation project, …

The End of Ephemerality
Exhibition opening and closing
11. 10. 2022 Read More »