https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6 Shoes as witnesses of Wars en-us 2018-08-12 14:16:21 UTC 2024-11-13 17:25:51 UTC hello@padlet.com hoffnungengel https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6/wish/272756183 One of the last possessions in Auschwitz Concentration Camp are shoes. The last witnesees of millions of steps  to survive. 

"Walking Stories" attempt to become a review of how shoes are more than objects that usually are displayed in museums as part of a context. More of that, these shoes belonged to people who, living or surviving wars, walked the History of the Humanity. As your own shoes. in your own time.]]> 2018-08-12 14:19:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6/wish/272756183 hoffnungengel https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6/wish/272756407 20th Century 

The Spanish Civil War was the bloodiest war in the entire Spain History. Not only because the war indeed, also for the thousands secretly people executed by Franco, after the War.

This shoes may belonged of one of this people.]]> 2018-08-12 14:25:06 UTC https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6/wish/272756407 hoffnungengel https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6/wish/272756568 20th Century

One of the works for women during the WWI was to makes and repair shoes.

This image of National Library France presents how the "shoemaker" job as other ones during The Great War, empowered European 
women.

]]> 2018-08-12 14:29:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6/wish/272756568 hoffnungengel https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6/wish/272756740 In the 6th August 1945 the world met the Atomic Bomb. Thousands of people died but other ones, succeeded in surviving, most of them, with side effects from radiation.

This shoes belong of one of that survivors as many memories of lost and destruction. ]]> 2018-08-12 14:34:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6/wish/272756740 hoffnungengel https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6/wish/272758056 20th Century

"Soldaderas o adelitas" was the name of poor women who battled the Mexican Revolution. Nowadays, their shoes and boots are the inspiration of traditional customs in Mexican Festivals to commemorate on of the most important wars in Mexican History. ]]> 2018-08-12 15:09:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hoffnungengel/onarhaiuwpm6/wish/272758056