2020

A Guided Walk Through Holešovice and Bubny, Led By Architect Zdeněk Lukeš

Despite the bad weather, the morning walk took place with the maximum number of allowed participants (twenty).

Many other people have already expressed interest in these stories of the Holešovice houses and their Jewish architects, so we hope to repeat this walk after the loosening of epidemiological restrictions.

Exhibition "The Layers of City's Memory - The Transiency"

This was our strangest exhibit opening - completely without visitors. They did not come because we asked them not to come. Before this, we have never sent out invitations saying "The exhibition will be captivating and mystical - but please don't come!" The exhibition opened with a concert by Martin Janíček, the author of one of the "transient sculptures", and Filip Jakš.

"The Layers of City's Memory - The Transiency" is an open-air exhibition along the tracks and train station platform, thus accessible even during the covid restriction period. The alley of sculptures was installed originally in 2017 and it was the most significant intervention of the Monument of Silence in Prague's famous brownfield. Various artifacts of transient nature freely reflect the war story of the Bubny train station and its people. Photos were added that capture the disintegration of the art objects.

Participating authors: Karel Cudlín, Lenka Hájek Kristiánová, Jamming, Martin Janíček, Kryštof Kaplan, Daniel Pešta, Nadia Rovderová, Matěj Stránský.

Images and Voices of Bubny

We have opened the Fall season with a multitude of photo exhibits installed in the attic of the train station building. On display are: "Latent Pictures of Terezín" by Richard Homola and "Babí Jar" by Karel Cudlín. Also, the Polish Institute has loaned us a new traveling exhibition "Passports for Life" plus a series of comic stories titled "Together in Bubbles".

The exhibition also includes enlarged photographs of the Jewish transports to the Bubny train station and the life in Terezín (newly discovered in the archives of Jaroslav Čvančara and Milan Weiner). These are rare and unique photographs which fill in the gap of real life photographs regarding transports and Terezín. We are preparing a solo exhibition of these for the next season.
The exhibition was opened by a concert by the group Choroš.

Remembering BIIb Tuesday 14th July 2020

Concert for the Theresienstadt family concentration camp

The first wave of genocide in the so called Theresienstadt family camp BIIb in Birkenau on the night of 8th to 9th March 1944, marked the end of the false hope given to Jewish families who were being deported there since September 1943. The rest of the families were then murdered and the camp closed down between 10th and 12th July 1944.

Due to the coronavirus pandemics, the concert planned for the March anniversary this year was cancelled. In its stead, The Bubny Memorial of Silence has prepared a remembrance event for the anniversary of the second wave of liquidation.

Tuesday 14th July 2020
17:30h : We will begin with a prelude at the former Radiotrh, the meeting point for Jewish transports (by the commemorative plaque next to Mama Shelter Prague hotel)

18:00h : We will walk together to The Great Hall of Veletržní Palace where you can also see the exhibition of Jan Lukas photos with texts from Ondrej Kundra „The second life of Vendulka V".

18:30h : The Bennewitz quartet concert

Free entry