by Susan | Jan 28, 2019 | Monuments
The memorial features a stone bench with wrought iron gating around a cobblestone circle. Scattered bronzes of common objects such as shoes, glasses, a teddy bear and a suitcase represent items left behind by those persecuted during the Holocaust. A cobblestone...
by Susan | Jan 21, 2019 | Monuments
Located in the Carmelite Quarter, this monument was dedicated in May, 1999. The text reads: “They rendered silent resistance to the the Nazi tyranny. Through personal courage they saved threatened fellow citizens from persecution and death. They put themselves...
by Susan | Jan 14, 2019 | Monuments
Mahnmal gegen Krieg und Faschismus, a memorial to the civil victims of the Second World War, was unveiled on November 24, 1988. “Tor der Gewalt,” which is generally translated as “Gates of Violence” or “Gates of Power” or sometimes “Gates of War” is the first part of...
by Susan | Jan 1, 2019 | 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...
by Susan | Jan 1, 2019 | Monuments
In 1956 Vienna renamed Erzherzog-Karl-Platz (Archduke Karl Square) as MexikoPlatz, and erected this memorial commemorating Mexico’s condemnation of the Anschluss (Nazi annexation of Austria to make a “Greater Germany”) in March, of 1938, the only country in the...
