Cultural programs

Briefly on Wannsee

A Memorial of Silence forum for sharing opinions
20 January 2022 at 3 p.m.
Residence of the Mayor of Prague, Mariánské náměstí 98/1, Prague 1

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, outcome, and substance communicate to us in terms of our understanding of the current situation of the globalised world?

The invitation was accepted by: Petr Fischer, Fedor Gál, Pavel Kosatík, Petr Koura, Petr Pithart, Jakub Rákosník, Karol Sidon, Jakub Szantó

For a recording of the session, please click here.

We are pleased that all participants considered it an honour to speak, and they all considered the seven-minute format of the presentations to be suitable in order to break the usual pattern of events of a similar nature.

A look back at the Light for Victory

Sunday, 28 November, 6 p.m.
The Light for Victory: Kindling the first Hanukkah light in front of the Bubny train station will begin the eight-day cycle of the Festival of Lights.
Photo: Karel Cudlín

A look back at drumming for Bubny 21

16 October 2021
The regular Drumming for Bubny event took place, as every year, on the anniversary of the first Prague transport. We collectively expressed our opinion on the silence that was complicit in events that should never be repeated.


The seventh edition of the Drumming for Bubny event, which was part of this autumn cycle of commemoration for the 80th anniversary of the first Jewish deportations from Prague, was further enhanced with a concert. The performers included Jiří Stivín, Robert Hugo, and students from the Přírodní škola secondary school, while the highlight of the musical programme was an abbreviated version of Steve Reich's composition "Different Trains", performed in the station hall by the young pianist Denis Szalbot.'


Photo: Bára Lockefeer

John Hannah was the fist to visit the Dias exhibition

John Hannah, who was the first visitor to the exhibition of photos by Pavel Dias, came to Prague to attend the opening of the film, "The Auschwitz Report".