The anniversary of the Nazi deportation of Jews from Prague is again commemorated by the happening in Bubny
Updates: 10/16/2021 12:34 AM
Released: 16.10.2021, 00:34
Prague – The first Jewish transport that the Nazis sent 80 years ago from Prague to Łódže today commemorates the happening at the railway station in Prague’s Bubny. It will take place for the seventh time. The organizers of the event called Drumming for Drums, which in a way disturb the inappropriate silence of passive viewing of events that should not have happened.
“We can jointly express our attitude to the silence that was the accomplice to the mass murder. It was and can be again. We believe that you will come to support us and that together we will suppress the silence of general inattention and self-impossibility,” the organizers said.
The drumming will be provided by the Tam Tam Batucada orchestra under the whistle of Miloš Vacík. It will be followed by a gala concert, at which students of the Gymnázium Přírodní škola will perform with set-to-music poems published by the boys in Terezín in their magazine Vedem. The second concert block will include memories of Prague in the 1930s, played by flutist Jiří Stivín and pianist Robert Hugo. The conclusion will be devoted to various trains from the American composer Steve Reich, who is motivated by Jewish deportations.
The first transport of Prague Jews from the Bubny railway station to Łódže left on October 16, 1941. There were a thousand men, women and children in it, and 24 people survived from it. A total of 50,000 citizens left Prague via the platform of the Prague-Bubny station, who were sentenced by their origin to the so-called final solution. In 1945, when the Germans left in Prague, the Germans left.
Last year, the traditional event at the Buben railway station, where Pavel Štingl’s Memorial of Silence was created on the initiative of film documentarists and director of the non-profit organization The Shoah Memorial in Prague, took place online due to the coronavirus pandemic. The symbolic first steps in the reconstruction of the railway station were the unveiling of the statue of Aleš Veselý in 2015, which replaces the usual meaning of the foundation stone. It has the form of a track facing the sky. This year, the gala concert will be preceded by the opening of an exhibition prologue to the exhibition entitled Pavel Dias: Torso – Memories for the Future, which is in the House of the Black Madonna.