Cultural programs

Memorial for BIIb – 8th March 2021

A remembrance event for the Theresienstadt family camp in Auschwitz has taken place on the 8th March at 6pm on Loreta square, Prague. Due to the current situation, the remembrance event took place without public presence and was streamed online.

The event was opened by a miniconcert at the Bubny railway station, which we have prepared in collaboration with mezzo-soprano singer Edita Adlerová and professors and students of the high school Přírodní škola.

The six candles lit in front of the Czernin Palace, the residence of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, were joined by a seventh candle, which was lit at the former lagerhouse BIIb in Birkenau by the director of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial and Museum Piotr Cywiňski.

MEMORIAL OF SILENCE

The Government of the Czech Republic has discussed the establishment of a new public-benefit organisation the MEMORIAL OF SILENCE.

After eight years of monumental effort, Bubny railway station has received a new hope for transforming into a place of memory.

Thank you for your support, and keep your fingers crossed.

Pavel Štingl

The Light of Hope - 10.12.2020, 17:00

The light of hope was lit on the 10th of December 2020 in front of the sculpture of a boat which serves as a reminder of the tragedy of Patria.

The first Hanukkah candle was lit by the Prague rabbi David Peter accompanied by the prayer of the chief rabbi Karol Sidon on the Bubny railway station.

Among the speakers was also Israeli ambassador Daniel Meron. He noted that on this important day his country celebrates not only one of the festivals of Jewish tradition but also the arrival of first round of vaccination against coronavirus to the Holy Land. Vaccination which should also soon arrive to the Czech Republic.

Happy Hanukkah, peaceful Christmas and hopeful New Year to all!

The Memorial of Silence

Remembering the Patria - 80th aniversary - 25.11.2020, 15:00 Bubny station

The history of the Ship Patria is one of the big stories of the 20th century.

On the 25th of November it will be 80 years since the ship Patria has sunk after a powerful explosion in the port of Haifa. At the time of explosion there has been almost 2000 Jewish refugees from the occupied Europe on board of Patria. The explosion has been caused by some of the refugees themselves so that all passengers could – in accord with the British laws – enter the land. The explosion however led to the rapid sinking of the ship and almost 270 of the refugees on board has died in the Patria disaster.