by Susan | Jun 20, 2016 | Monuments
The sculpture Reconciliation is on permanent display in the square outside the J.B. Priestley Library, at Bradford University. It shows two exhausted figures, a male and a female, kneeling and embracing. The sculptor, Josefina de Vasconcellos, was inspired by the...
by Susan | Jun 13, 2016 | Monuments
Peace Park was the dream of Dr. Floyd Schmoe, who after winning the Hiroshima Peace Prize in 1998, used the $5,000 prize money to clear a small lot near the University of Washington. From a pile of wrecked cars, garbage, and brush, he worked with community volunteers...
by Susan | Jun 6, 2016 | Monuments
The events of the night of 7 June 1893 changed the course of Mahatma Gandhi’s life. The young Indian lawyer had come to South Africa for work. He was traveling from Durban to Johannesburg and had a first class ticket for the train. He was told to leave the...
by Susan | May 30, 2016 | Monuments
Yao Yuan is a Chinese sculptor who was sentenced to work in a factory during the Cultural Revolution and later devoted his life and work to world peace. He created a Statue of Peace for Korea in 1995, one for Russia in 2000 and, in 2011 a stainless-steel World Peace...
by Susan | May 23, 2016 | Monuments
On May 22, 1963, right-wing forces ran down and killed Grigoris Lambrakis, a leftist member of the Greek Parliament, who had been speaking at a peace meeting. Vassilis Vassilikos based his novel Z on Lambrakis’s death; Costa-Gavras then adapted the novel for his...
by Susan | May 16, 2016 | Monuments
On 21 October 1942, the Palatea, a German ship carrying prisoners of war destined for slave labor camps in occupied Norway, was torpedoed off Lindesnes lighthouse. 915 Russian prisoners & 71 German crew perished. The wreck was located in 1997 by the Royal...
