National Gallery Prague – Trade Fair Palace

This guide to the Trade Fair Palace in Prague follows the building's darkest chapter first: in October 1941, Nazi occupiers assembled Prague's Jewish residents here before deportation, marching them to trains bound east days later. Decades on, a different catastrophe struck the same halls, a 1974 fire that burned for nearly a week and gutted the building down to its concrete frame. Firefighters that night pulled hundreds of people from an underground cinema below.