Way
Praha–Bubny railway station is located in Prague 7 in the Holešovice. Although today it is only served by local trains and with limited passenger facilities, it is one of the largest stations in Prague by area. During the Second World War, the Railway station Bubny, saw transports of tens of thousands of Jewish residents from Prague ghettos sent to concentration camps and extermination camps. Some 50,000 Czech Jews walked through the small departure lounge at the Bubny station to be put on transport trains taking them to the Łódź ghetto and later to the concentration camp in Theresienstadt, or Terezín. Most were subsequently transported to forced labor and death camps like Auschwitz, where they perished. Of the vast majority of Czech Jews who were taken to Terezin (or Theresienstadt), 97,297 died among whom were 15,000 children. Only 132 of those children were known to have survived. Helga Hošková-Weissová was 12 years old when her family was called up for one of the first transports out of Prague, heading to Terezín. Bubny was her last stopping point in her home city. “I remember it quite clearly. It was December of ’41. It was a freezing winter. It was in the morning and it was snowing. We walked from today’s Veletrzni palace with our luggage all the way here, and I think we went straight to the platform. They put us into the cars in groups of 50. “We knew that our destination was Terezin, but we did not know what it would be like. We were very naive. We thought we would live there as a family and work, and that it would soon come home, alive. Of course, it all turned out differently. Families were separated right away; and we later found out that Terezin was not the final destination.” Since first time I have been in Bubny I had different feelings. First expression was depressed, so many people, so many stories went through the Bubny. For me was interesting what they were thinking about, how feeling and what have seen on the way to Terezin. In this case I decided to make my own «way». All pictures is to taken by film camera 6x6, that reminds me old archive pictures from personal dossier.