October 24, 2012
Germany Opens Memorial to Roma Holocaust Victims German Chancellor Angela Merkel is inaugurating a memorial to thousands of victims of the Holocaust who were ethnic Roma. Merkel opened the memorial in Berlin, the German capital. The circular pool is located across the street from the German parliament building. The Nazis deemed the Roma, like the Jews, to be genetically inferior. It is unclear how many Roma were rounded up and killed in the death camps during World War II, but estimates reach as high as half a million. (via Deutsche Welle)

Germany Opens Memorial to Roma Holocaust Victims

German Chancellor Angela Merkel is inaugurating a memorial to thousands of victims of the Holocaust who were ethnic Roma.

Merkel opened the memorial in Berlin, the German capital. The circular pool is located across the street from the German parliament building.

The Nazis deemed the Roma, like the Jews, to be genetically inferior. It is unclear how many Roma were rounded up and killed in the death camps during World War II, but estimates reach as high as half a million. (via Deutsche Welle)

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Filed under: Berlin Ethnic Minorities Germany Holocaust Memorial Monument Monuments Roma Roma Holocaust Romani Romany World War Two WWII 
April 21, 2012
Bergamo, Italy A pair of soccer shoes and scarves are seen outside the church before Livorno’s soccer player Piermario Morosini’s funeral. Morosini died after collapsing on the pitch with cardiac arrest during an Italian second division game at Pescara on Saturday, prompting the federation to postpone this weekend’s professional games. (via Reuters.com)

Bergamo, Italy

A pair of soccer shoes and scarves are seen outside the church before Livorno’s soccer player Piermario Morosini’s funeral. Morosini died after collapsing on the pitch with cardiac arrest during an Italian second division game at Pescara on Saturday, prompting the federation to postpone this weekend’s professional games. (via Reuters.com)

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Filed under: Italy Bergamo Funeral Memorial Death Piermario Morosini Livorno Photography 
April 20, 2012
Oslo, Norway Boys stand in front of a memorial for the victims of the July 22, 2011 attacks near the cathedral on the fourth day of the terrorism and murder trial against mass killer Anders Behring Breivik (via Reuters.com)

Oslo, Norway

Boys stand in front of a memorial for the victims of the July 22, 2011 attacks near the cathedral on the fourth day of the terrorism and murder trial against mass killer Anders Behring Breivik (via Reuters.com)

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Filed under: Norway Oslo Memorial Terrorism Terrorist Mass Killer Anders Behring Breivik Photography 
January 19, 2012
Nicosia, Cyprus The coffin of Rauf Denktash is pictured on a gun carriage carrying him through the streets of northern Nicosia (via Reuters.com)

Nicosia, Cyprus

The coffin of Rauf Denktash is pictured on a gun carriage carrying him through the streets of northern Nicosia (via Reuters.com)

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Filed under: Cyprus Nicosia Northern Nicosia Rauf Denktash Funeral Memorial Remembrance Photography 
January 11, 2012
Rome, Italy Gunter Demnig places a ‘stolperstein’ memorial cobblestone in Via Madonna dei Monti. ‘Stolperstein’ means ‘obstacle’ in German, and in this case artist Demnig is placing the small memorials in roads to memorialize wartime victims of Nazi persecution. (via ZUMA)

Rome, Italy

Gunter Demnig places a ‘stolperstein’ memorial cobblestone in Via Madonna dei Monti. ‘Stolperstein’ means ‘obstacle’ in German, and in this case artist Demnig is placing the small memorials in roads to memorialize wartime victims of Nazi persecution. (via ZUMA)

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Filed under: Italy Rome Via Madonna dei Monti Cobblestone Memorial Commemoration World War Two WWII Nazi Persecuction Nazis Stolperstein Stolperstein Memorial Stolperstein Cobblestone Photography 
January 11, 2012
Rome, Italy People take part in a torchlight procession and memorial in memory of Zhou Zeng and his baby daughter who were shot dead last week during an attempted robbery. (via ZUMA)

Rome, Italy

People take part in a torchlight procession and memorial in memory of Zhou Zeng and his baby daughter who were shot dead last week during an attempted robbery. (via ZUMA)

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Filed under: Italy Rome Vigial Memorial Procession Murder Deaths Attempted Robbery Photography 
December 21, 2011
Prague, Czech Republic People light candles and hold the national flag in tribute to late former Czech President Václav Havel at Wenceslas Square (via Reuters.com)

Prague, Czech Republic

People light candles and hold the national flag in tribute to late former Czech President Václav Havel at Wenceslas Square (via Reuters.com)

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Filed under: Czech Republic Prague Wenceslas Square Václav Havel Remembrance Memorial Mourning Photography 
November 28, 2011
Germany: girl sends lone Knut memorial entry A seven-year-old girl has sent in the only design for a proposed memorial to Berlin’s late celebrity polar bear Knut. Berliners loved Knut, a cub rejected by his mother and brought up by a zookeeper at the German capital’s zoo. But they apparently aren’t clamoring to come up with an homage to the furry star. A competition to design a memorial to the bear has drawn a only single entry by a seven-year-old girl, according to the BZ daily. The bear died unexpectedly earlier this year at age four. Not a single professional artist has sent an idea to the association behind the competition, said Thomas Ziolko, the group’s chief. He’s calling on interested artists to get their ideas to him. The competition’s deadline is Dec. 20. (via The Local) Aw, such a shame! Good on the little girl, but surely the grown-ups can come up with something too? The deadline is fast approaching.

Germany: girl sends lone Knut memorial entry

A seven-year-old girl has sent in the only design for a proposed memorial to Berlin’s late celebrity polar bear Knut.

Berliners loved Knut, a cub rejected by his mother and brought up by a zookeeper at the German capital’s zoo. But they apparently aren’t clamoring to come up with an homage to the furry star.

A competition to design a memorial to the bear has drawn a only single entry by a seven-year-old girl, according to the BZ daily. The bear died unexpectedly earlier this year at age four.

Not a single professional artist has sent an idea to the association behind the competition, said Thomas Ziolko, the group’s chief. He’s calling on interested artists to get their ideas to him. The competition’s deadline is Dec. 20. (via The Local)

Aw, such a shame! Good on the little girl, but surely the grown-ups can come up with something too? The deadline is fast approaching.

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Filed under: Germany Berlin Berlin Zoo Zoo Animals Polar Bear Polar Bears Knut Knut the Polar Bear Memorials Memorial Competition Memorial Competition Children Competitions Contests 
November 28, 2011
For Whom the Bell Tolls: Nazi Memorial Embarrasses German Community The wreath is still quite fresh. It was laid on the war memorial on Nov. 13, Germany’s day of national mourning for the victims of war, to commemorate the fallen of World War II, whose names are engraved on stone slabs. According to the community’s official history, the war took “a very high toll in blood” in the municipality. But it is not the slabs with the names of the fallen soldiers that are attracting visitors’ attention at this war memorial in Tümlauer-Koog, located on the Eiderstedt peninsula near the Danish border in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Instead, it is a massive bell that dominates the memorial — and it is dedicated to Nazi leader Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command. The small settlement of Tümlauer-Koog is built on land reclaimed from the sea (“Koog” is a northern German word for polder) during the Nazi period, under the influence of Hitler’s “blood and soil” ideology, which glorified rural living and promoted the idea of Lebensraum (“living space”). Up until 1945, the community was known as Hermann-Göring-Koog. Göring himself traveled to the newly reclaimed polder in 1935 to inaugurate it. The Göring bell has been part of the war memorial since 2008, where it stands next to a misleading explanatory plaque. For three years, nobody took offense to the monument, probably because there are few visitors to the memorial and even fewer take the trouble to read the inscription on the plaque. That changed a few days ago, when a holidaymaker wrote to Peter Harry Carstensen, the governor of Schleswig-Holstein, to inform him about the bell. Carstensen responded by writing to the local mayor demanding that the bell be removed and the inscription changed. (via SPIEGEL ONLINE)

For Whom the Bell Tolls: Nazi Memorial Embarrasses German Community

The wreath is still quite fresh. It was laid on the war memorial on Nov. 13, Germany’s day of national mourning for the victims of war, to commemorate the fallen of World War II, whose names are engraved on stone slabs. According to the community’s official history, the war took “a very high toll in blood” in the municipality.

But it is not the slabs with the names of the fallen soldiers that are attracting visitors’ attention at this war memorial in Tümlauer-Koog, located on the Eiderstedt peninsula near the Danish border in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein. Instead, it is a massive bell that dominates the memorial — and it is dedicated to Nazi leader Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command.

The small settlement of Tümlauer-Koog is built on land reclaimed from the sea (“Koog” is a northern German word for polder) during the Nazi period, under the influence of Hitler’s “blood and soil” ideology, which glorified rural living and promoted the idea of Lebensraum (“living space”). Up until 1945, the community was known as Hermann-Göring-Koog. Göring himself traveled to the newly reclaimed polder in 1935 to inaugurate it.

The Göring bell has been part of the war memorial since 2008, where it stands next to a misleading explanatory plaque. For three years, nobody took offense to the monument, probably because there are few visitors to the memorial and even fewer take the trouble to read the inscription on the plaque. That changed a few days ago, when a holidaymaker wrote to Peter Harry Carstensen, the governor of Schleswig-Holstein, to inform him about the bell. Carstensen responded by writing to the local mayor demanding that the bell be removed and the inscription changed. (via SPIEGEL ONLINE)

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Filed under: Bell Commemoration Eiderstedt Peninsula Germany Hermann Göring Hermann-Göring-Koog Memorial Memorial Bell Nazi Memorial Schleswig-Holstein Tümlauer-Koog WWII World War 2 World War II Nazis 
November 21, 2011
Vilnius, Lithuania 15,377 candles are lit in Cathedral Square during a campaign in memory of those killed in road accidents (via guardian.co.uk)

Vilnius, Lithuania

15,377 candles are lit in Cathedral Square during a campaign in memory of those killed in road accidents (via guardian.co.uk)

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Filed under: Lithuania Vilnius Cathedral Square Memorial Remembrance Road Safety Road Accidents Candles Photography 
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