Wounded: Conflict, Casualties and Care
This exhibition commemorated the centenary of the momentous battle and examined the huge medical and human impact of wounding during and beyond the First World War.
This exhibition commemorated the centenary of the momentous battle and examined the huge medical and human impact of wounding during and beyond the First World War.
The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia preserves the national memory, memorial and the long term historical story of the fate of the Latvian state, people and land while under the control of two occupying totalitarian powers from 1940-1991. This is the story of the treachery of the USSR and Nazi Germany against the sovereign state of Latvia, and the three occupations that led to the people of Latvia being pushed to the extreme limits of physical and mental survival.
The Troubles collection consists mainly of political posters and ephemera, many of which date from the early to mid-1970s. There are also many examples of prison-made objects, badges and artworks. Inevitably the interpretation of these events is contested in terms of significance, meaning and responsibility. While we have a shared past we do not have a shared memory.
Beth Shalom (lit. "House of Peace") is a Holocaust memorial centre near Laxton in Nottinghamshire in England. Opened in 1995, it is England's only dedicated Holocaust museum, though there is also a permanent exhibition at London's Imperial War Museum. The centre was founded by brothers James and Stephen Smith following a 1991 visit to Israel during which a trip to Yad Vashem changed the way they looked at history and the Holocaust.
Thousands of admirers of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini visit his tiny home town every year. Now, the town's center-leftist mayor Giorgio Frassineti wants to open a museum of fascism on the main square, not as an homage to their cause but as a way to contain it. Frassineti wants to overhaul the town's crumbling 1937 House of Fascism, an imposing marble-and-brick edifice with a balcony once used for delivering speeches to cheering crowds, for a Museum of Fascism.
The Museum was opened in 2003 inside a 18th century complex. The same building is also home to the National Film Archives of the Italian Resistance, the Piedmont Institute for History of the Italian Resistance and Contemporary Society and the Primo Levi International Study Center. The permanent display - "Turin 1938 – 1948.
The monument was founded by Jacek Eisner. Its form refers to the high wall of the ghetto with barbed wire, to which plates, arranged in the shape of a menorah, lead. Ruins of the ghetto were placed at the bottom of the monument, on the surface of which are photographs of Jewish children who died during World War II.
The International Memorial Society is hosting a special exhibit on Shalamov, whose famous collection of stories “Kolyma Tales” remains one of the most powerful literary portrayals of life and death in the Gulag. A poster exhibit on Lubyanskaya Ploshchad explores his life in Moscow and in exile.
The permanent exhibition is on the Atlantic commerce and especially the slave trade developed since the creation of the port of Bordeaux, one of the main slave ports of France. Throughout the visit, written comments help visitors understand the context and history of the objects and tools on display.
The Holocaust Memorial Center for the Jews of Macedonia (Macedonian: Меморијален центар на холокаустот на Евреите од Македонија, Memorijalen centar na holokaustot na Evreite od Makedonija; Ladino: Sentro Memorial del Holokausto de los Djudios de la Makedonia) is a memorial to the holocaust of the 7,148 Jews from North Macedonia and the history of the Jews in the Balkans, located in Skopje, the capital city of North Macedonia.
The purpose of this website is to offer a guide to both general public and researchers of the museums of European political and violence, what content they offer and the topics that are not sufficiently represented. This website wants to help us to rethink the realities, shortcomings and possibilities of Public History in Europe.
This research was supported by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.