Remembering Across Borders: How the Shoah is Commemorated in Czechia

Alina Braun

“Up to sixty people used to sleep in this room,” says Carolin Hess quietly, standing in front of the wooden bunks. A school class from Germany crowds into the narrow space behind her. Some of the students pull out their phones. They’ve been asked to take photos of places at the memorial that move them to reflect later on what they saw and felt. The air smells of old stone and damp memory. “This is a reconstructed and therefore clean version of a women’s barrack,” Carolin adds. “In reality, you have to imagine catastrophic hygiene conditions in the ghetto.” 

Read the whole multi-media story about commemoration of Shoa and the end of WWII created by Alina Braun for the Foreign Correspondence course led by Alice Němcová Tejkalová here.