PHOTO: The anniversary of the Nazi deportation of Jews from Prague to commemorate the Drumming in Bubny
Its purpose was to break the silence of passive observance of the silent previous to the suppression of human rights and genocide. According to the organizers, led by Pavel Štingl, silence was and is an accomplice to the mass murder, which can be repeated.
The rhythm was provided by a six-member group of drummers from the Tam Tam Batucada group under the whistle of Miloš Vacík, who accompanied the flutist and clarinetist Jiří Stivín. The newcomers also got involved with the help of drums made of cardboard or boxes. A few pairs came. The number of participants was disproportionately less than a thousand people who, according to the actress and witness of the first Drumming for Drums, Bára Hrzánová, met despite the rain at the drum station in 2015.
The happening was followed by a trailer for an exhibition of photographs called Pavel Dias: Torso – Memories for the Future, which captures the pain and memories of Holocaust survivors in the House of the Black Madonna, a gala concert in the station hall. The students of the Gymnázium Přírodní škola performed music set to music by the boys who are interned in Terezín in their magazine Vedem.
The second concert block belonged to memories of Prague in the 1930s, which he played in the melody Stivín and pianist Robert Hugo. The conclusion was devoted to the composition Different Trains by the American composer Steve Reich, which 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.
The symbolic first steps in the reconstruction of the railway station into the Monument of Silence in 2015 were the unveiling of the statue of Aleš Veselý in the form of tracks facing the sky. It was later supplemented by a ship’s torso, which commemorates the destruction of the Patria ship with Jewish refugees on board.
In the future, according to the plan, the class is to be led by Nicholas Winton, who before World War II saved 669 mostly Jewish children from the occupied territories from being transported to concentration camps by arranging their transport to Great Britain.
