by Susan | Mar 29, 2021 | Monuments
Just off the United Nations Square, up a small rise, is the Musee International de la Croix-Rouge et du Croissant-Rouge (the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum.) As you walk up the ramp to the museum entrance, you encounter a group of shrouded, life-size...
by Susan | Mar 22, 2021 | Monuments
This statue is on the station square in Hilversum, a city between Utrecht and Amsterdam. The statue is named “Monument for Tolerance,” but it is popularly called “the hands.”The monument of concrete and glass was created by Edo van Tetterode....
by Susan | Mar 8, 2021 | Monuments
Mary was a key figure in the 1915 Rent Strikes, which exposed and protested against landlords who took advantage of the wartime economy to hike up rents for workers, evicting those who could not pay. The protests forced a change in the law with the introduction of the...
by Susan | Feb 2, 2021 | Monuments
The limestone sculpture of two humans hands by Shane Gilmore were placed on the grounds of Saints Peter and Paul Cathedral in May, 2008. The hands were dedicated to several concepts as shown on the plaques below the sculpture: Hands sculptured by Shane Gilmore Hands...
by Susan | Jan 18, 2021 | Monuments
This memorial is located in front of the Reichstag building and commemorates the 96 members of the Germany’s last democratically elected pre-war parliament who were murdered by the Nazis between 1933 and 1945, in concentration camps. In German, Denkmal zur...
