by Susan | Feb 27, 2017 | Monuments
The Keeling-Puri Peace Plaza was erected by the families of Virgil Keeling of Rockford and Amanath Puri of Mumbai to honor the vision of the two men, righteousness in the heart and peace in the world. The 15 foot by 34 foot sculpture “Harmony Atlas” sits atop a...
by Susan | Feb 20, 2017 | Monuments
We close our monumental tour of Berlin with the Brandenburg Gate, an archetypal example of how the symbolism of monuments evolves. The Gate was commissioned by King Frederick William II of Prussia and, when completed in 1791, was named the Peace Gate (German:...
by Susan | Feb 13, 2017 | Monuments
Große Hamburger Straße is in the Hackescher Markt district of Berlin. In the pre-war years it housed a Jewish cemetery, school and home for the elderly. On 11 March 1942, the SS ordered the school’s closure. Its doors were shut on 30th June and the Gestapo turned it –...
by Susan | Feb 6, 2017 | Monuments
A stolperstein (literally, “stumbling blocks”) is a type of monument created by artist Gunter Demnig to commemorate victims of Nazi oppression, including the Holocaust. Stolpersteins are small, cobblestone-sized memorials for individual victims of Nazism. They...
by Susan | Jan 30, 2017 | Monuments
The Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism is dedicated to the memory of the 220,000 – 500,000 people murdered in the Porajmos – the Nazi genocide of the European Sinti and Roma peoples. The memorial is on Simsonweg in the Tiergarten in...
by Susan | Jan 23, 2017 | Monuments
Designed by artists Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset, the Cuboid (German: Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus verfolgten Homosexuellen) is made of concrete. On the front side of the cuboid is a window, through which visitors can see a short film of two kissing...
