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...
by Susan | Jan 13, 2021 | Monuments
To celebrate peace at the end of World War I, the Boy Scouts proposed lighting beacon fires across the British Empire. The idea was inspired by the words of Sir Edward Grey on August 3, 1914, who looked out of his window in London at dusk and remarked: “The lamps are...
by Susan | Jan 11, 2021 | Monuments
Rose Garrard was commissioned in 1998 to create this sculpture to draw attention to an existing commemorative stone on a war memorial site in Barnard’s Green, which was neglected and regularly vandalized. She researched and developed the designs in consultation with...
by Susan | Jan 4, 2021 | Monuments
“The Big Hand” was designed by architect Oscar Niemeyer in 1989 as the focal point of the the Latin America Memorial (in Portuguese, Memorial da América Latina), a cultural, political and leisure complex. This large hand is perhaps a nod to his mentor...
by Susan | Dec 28, 2020 | Monuments
Mátyás Horváth, President of the Vácrátót Traditional and Village Conservation Association, noted that “Vácrátót actually has no monument to the heroes of World Wars I and II, so the leadership of the village would like to commemorate them in this way.”...
by Susan | Dec 21, 2020 | Monuments
Just after midnight on September18th, 1961 a plane carrying UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld and fifteen others crashed, killing all aboard, outside of Ndola, in what was then Rhodesia. The small plane was on the way to the Congo Republic to negotiate a...
by Susan | Dec 14, 2020 | Monuments
The Ladies Battlefield Association commissioned Italian artist Guiseppe Moretti for this monument, dedicated on Armistice Day 1927, to all those who fought during the 1864 Battle of Nashville. The marble obelisk and angel were destroyed in the tornadoes of 1974; the...
by Susan | Dec 7, 2020 | Monuments
This sphere of welded interlinked chains and bars, 260 cm (about 8.5 feet) in diameter, houses an eternal flame in its center, powered by natural gas from the Kinsale Head gas field. It was commissioned by Amnesty International in 1995 and designed by Tony...
by Susan | Nov 30, 2020 | Monuments
The Way of Human Rights was opened on 24 October 1993. It is sited on the street between the new and old buildings of the Germanisches Nationalmuseum, connecting Kornmarkt street and the medieval city wall. Created by Israeli artist Dani Karavan it consists of a gate,...
by Susan | Nov 23, 2020 | Monuments
The Women’s Memorial was dedicated on November 18, 2010 at the Brockville Arts Centre during an unveiling ceremony entitled “Voices of Hope,” a community celebration to end violence against women. The base of the monument is engraved: “This...
