Průvodce protektorátní Prahou

2 ideas

1. Terror is embedded in ordinary addresses

   Mapping occupation history street by street, rather than as a narrative of leaders and battles, shows that repression and resistance happened in apartment blocks, shops, schools and offices people still walk past daily. The same building can hold an arrest, a hiding place and an informer, which collapses the distance between 'history' and the present-day city.

2. The address as unit of historical record

   Indexing events by street and house number instead of by date or theme turns a mass of fragmentary archival records (arrest lists, execution registers, deportation files) into a usable reference that anyone can query from where they stand. The format also reveals clustering: networks of helpers, Gestapo sites and deportation routes become visible as spatial patterns across districts.

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