Tag: memorial

Don’t Tread on Them

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The “Stolpersteine” or “stumbling stones” are a project of the artist Gunter Demnig. They are brass covered cobblestones on pavements outside houses were Germans of Jewish descent used to live. Other persecuted groups are commemorated in this way as well. They are inscribed with their names, their dates of birth and short information what happened to them. This particular family of Luise and Jakob Stern who I found in Rüsselsheim had the parents emigrating to South Africa, where the father died before the end of the war. Their daughter Irva was murdered in Auschwitz.

More than 75,000 stones have been laid in Germany, more in neighbouring countries where the Nazi terror regime was present.

FOWC with Fandango: Poignant

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Red Dress Run

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This is from the wikipedia site on the Hash House Harriers:

An event held annually by some chapters is the “Red Dress Run”. In 1987, Donna Rhinehart was taken to a hash in Long Beach, California, to be introduced to the sport. She was invited to “wait in the truck” until her host returned. Instead Rhinehart joined the hash in her red dress. The following year, the San Diego Hash House Harriers sent Rhinehart an airline ticket to attend the inaugural “Red Dress Run”. Hundreds of hashers wore red dresses for the event which was widely covered by local media. In addressing the crowd, Rhinehart, or “The Lady in Red” as she became known, suggested that such hashes might be held to raise funds for local charities. The event quickly spread around the globe to places such as Beijing, Montreal, Helsinki, Osan/Yangsan Hashers, Moscow, Tokyo, New Orleans,[10] Washington DC and Hobart in Australia. Over the years, it has raised millions of dollars for charity. The New Orleans Hash House Harriers attracted 7,000 participants to their Red Dress Run in 2010, raising more than $200,000 for 50 local charities.

Today the Red Dress Run is another part of the Hash House Harriers’ heritage. Rhinehart died in 2013 as the Hash House Harriers were celebrating the 25th anniversary of their Red Dress Run.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hash_House_Harriers

Our kennel (the proper name for a chapter of the HHH) had not planned a Red Dress Run until later in the year. But when the news spread that Donna Rhinehart had died, we decided to come to our next scheduled run in red dresses (or wear something red) in order to honour her. None of us never knew Donna personally or had met her but she had had an impact on our lives. We toast her every year.

The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Memorial

Remembering for the Future

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A little park, close to the botanical garden, has tennis courts in the middle and a memorial at the entrance. The memorial is for the victims of violence, war and persecution.

On 15 October 1940 the live-in patients of the local special care nursing home for people with physical or mental handicaps were moved to Grafeneck, an extermination facility. They were killed there.

On 22 October 1940 the Jewish people living in Weinheim were transported to the Camp de Gurs from where they were sent to Auschwitz-Birkenau. Where they were killed.

The synagogue used to be near the memorial. It had been destroyed almost two years earlier on 10 November 1938 during the November pogroms.

Every year from mid-October onwards a few random suitcases are placed in the middle of the star of David which is embedded in the ground of the memorial. People had but a couple of hours to pack their belongings in a suitcase, one suitcase per person, before being taken from their homes.

Walking Square #10

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Monument much?

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On a recent visit to a cemetery I came upon this mausoleum. I want to give them the benefit of the doubt and believe that they had a connection to Egypt or the ancient world. A quick search came up with the fact that the man buried here with his wife was a native of Heidelberg, emigrated to the US where he bought several large breweries, and sold these to return to his native town towards the end of his life. He died in 1912. The memorial is impressive (if verging on kitsch) but I can’t help thinking that it doesn’t serve the memory of the actual man (or in a perverse way, maybe it does).

Linked to A Photo a Week: Memorial.

there but for the grace of god

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“Spiegel der Geschichte” von Matthias Braun – a memorial in Schwetzingen, Germany, commemorating the victims of the Nazi era and urging future generations to safeguard democracy and human rights.

To me this installation signifies the truth that it happened to them and it can happen to us – the people reflected in the figures. The people seen clapping is an art  installation on the opposite side of the road called “Die Claque” from Guido Messer – depicting four men clapping with their eyes closed, applauding whatever they are paid to applaud.

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