The Commemoration Debate by

2024-12-12 17:45:06 UTC

No Passaran

2024-12-12 18:08:44 UTC

Passaran

2024-12-12 18:28:19 UTC

some memorials are very unassuming and unmemorial like

National Holocaust Centre and Museum UK

2024-12-13 00:33:51 UTC

Based in Nottingham, was only one of two places dedicated to Holocaust memory in England that wasn't in London

Interesting to read about its conception - established by a Christian family after a visit to another Holocaust museum

Yad Vashem Children's Memorial

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It is interesting how much the material of the stone has been left untreated and un-sculpted. This is in difference to many other monuments that tend to use the material of stone to create clear defined forms with an obvious message. For example the monument to the Warsaw uprising.

The Rails of Memory - Lyon

2024-12-13 11:05:01 UTC

This memorial was only built this year. It is interesting to see how cities are trying to keep the memory of the Holocaust in our collective memory.

Lesbian Memorial Orb, Rävensbruck

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The National Holocaust Monument, Ottawa Canada - Edward Burtynsky

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'The Pit' memorial site in Belarus

Bronze sculpture is called 'The Last Way'

It depicts 27 of the 5,000 Jewish victims from the Minsk ghetto who were forced to descend into 'The Pit' to their execution on 2 March, 1942.

Shoes on the Danube Bank

2024-12-13 12:39:20 UTC

This is a memorial erected on 16 April 2005 to honor the Jews who were massacred by fascist Hungarian militia belonging to the Arrow Cross Party in Budapest during the Second World War.