The burning bush, which is not consumed by fire, is a symbol of the Jewish people. This is how the rabbi interprets the biblical text from the Second Book of Moses: "... he saw that the bush was burning with fire, and yet the bush was not consumed by the fire." (third chapter, second verse in the translation of Rabbi Ephraim Sidon). The apparent overuse of the word "bush" in this verse puts a special emphasis on it and is interpreted in the same way that the burning bush that does not burn up is a picture of the fact that the enemies will not be able to destroy Israel (see the rabbinic commentary on Exodus raba 2,5). /Lukáš Klíma/ A stylized charred steel bush is located in a selected place in the park below the old evangelical school, which symbolizes the fate of Jewish citizens. This bush will appear again in the form of several small bronze leaves.

Joint realization with the sculptor Marko Rejent.

Memorial to the victims of the Holocaust from Proseč The initiative to erect a memorial to the victims of the Holocaust from the city of Proseč came out of a meeting of the city council at the turn of 2012 and 2013. In Proseč, like in most cities and towns of the Czech Republic, there are monuments to the victims of both world wars, whose memory is regularly commemorated, in the local part of Paseka there is an architecturally interesting monument to the victims of the anti-Nazi resistance (Gen. Svatoň and Capt. Soška), there are graves of victims in the cemeteries of the Second World War related to the partisan movement of the local region. There is still no memorial in Proseč dedicated to more than thirty citizens of our town of Jewish origin who, with one exception, became victims of the Nazi genocide. The idea of ​​the project arose on the basis of the awarding of Honorary Citizenship of Proseč to members of the Fleischmann family. On February 28, 2012, the city of Proseč granted in memoriam the honorary citizenship of the city of Proseč to Rudolf Fleischmann, as a special token of appreciation for the meritorious act of initiating the granting of the right of residence for the German writers Thomas Mann, Heinrich Mann and their families. His daughters, Lady Milena Grenfell-Baines and Eva Paddock, were also awarded honorary citizenship for extraordinary lifetime achievements, especially for spreading the good name of our country abroad, for charitable work and for publicizing the heroic deed of Sir Nicholas Winton. Milena is one of the best-known Winton children, still in touch with all of Sir Nicholas Winton's living "children". He has great merit in the meeting of these "children" in England and later also in Prague. Both co-organized the journey of the historic Winton train from Prague to London. At the same time as this family, we also want to remember other Jewish families: Kosiner, Kopperl, who founded the first pipe-making manufactory and later the pipe factory.

The author of the memorial proposal for Proseč is the sculptor Dagmar Šubrtová, a graduate of Prague's UMPRUM and a long-time teacher working at this school in Kurt Gebauer's Atelier. The author was approached with regard to her experience in designing and realizing works of art for public spaces. Marek Rejent took charge of the realization of the entire work, the blacksmith work was carried out by Zdeněk Háněl from Zderaz.