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Disused Train Station to Host Holocaust Museum

(The Prague Post)—The disused railway station at Prague-Bubny is a haunting reminder of the Holocaust. The depot, obsolete since the wartime period, was where the Germans and their collaborators rounded up the Jews and deported them to Terezin, Auschwitz and other places. The area around the station is being gentrified, and a temporary photo exhibit in the abandoned station is recasting it as a cultural center and memorial. Visitors got a glimpse of the future at the June 4-18 exhibition “Kaddish.” Named after the Jewish prayer for the dead, the event was a precursor to a planned large-scale Bubny cultural center and Holocaust memorial. The small exhibition included live concerts, debates related to the Holocaust, talks from Holocaust survivors and witnesses, and the presentation of redevelopment plans for the area. The objective, organizers say, is to retain the train station’s authenticity while transforming its disused interior into a lecture hall and exhibition space. The space will have classrooms, seasonal exhibitions and concerts. There are also plans to expand the station outward onto the existing railway tracks. Negotiations with the Czech Railroad, which oversees the site, are underway and hope to be concluded at the end of summer.

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