The Lemkin Train with wagons of ČD Cargo as its main partner set out on a symbolic journey on Monday afternoon to spread the legacy of Raphael Lemkin, the author of the concept of genocide and the 1948 UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

Already in the past we successfully cooperated with the Terezín Centre for Genocide Studies in the implementation of the similarly focused Lustig Train. It commemorated the victims of the Holocaust through the play A Prayer for Katerina Horovitz.

"This is not just about the Holocaust," said Tomáš Tóth, Chairman of the Board of Directors of ČD Cargo, at the opening ceremony of the project at Prague Masaryk Station. "The current times are full of anger, violence and intolerance. There is a war conflict raging not far from us, thousands of refugees who have lost their safe home are heading to Europe, and the economic situation is not entirely simple either. All this is still escalated by the influences I have mentioned. That makes the Lemkin Train project all the more important. It is necessary to spread awareness, especially among young people, and to prevent the spread of violence and xenophobia," Tomáš Tóth concluded his speech.

You will be able to visit the multimedia exhibition of the Lemkin Train in Prague at Masaryk Station, Kolín, Rakovník and at Ústí nad Labem Střekov station. More information about this project can be found at https://www.genocidestudies.cz/tag/lemkin/