The Men on the Memorial
This exhibition presents stories of Skelsmergh's First World War dead.
This exhibition presents stories of Skelsmergh's First World War dead.
Over the centuries, the Alps have been a place of refuge and hospitality. During the second world war, a time of fierce racial and political persecution, the Valpelline valley was swept with a large number of people fleeing to the neutral territory of Switzerland.
Countless archives in the Netherlands and other countries have been consulted, leading to the discovery of numerous previously unknown photographs. Unlike in most countires occupied by the Nazis, many of these photographs have been preserved. The exhibition of these photographs is curated by the NIOD and the event is a collaborative venture between the Jewish Cultural Quarter in Amsterdam, the NIOD, and the Topographie des Terrors in Berlin, where the exhibition will be on view from the autumn of 2019.
The Musée de l'Appel de la liberté, also called the "Museum of the Resistance", is an exceptional display of the period 1939-1945. The very judicious choice of objects and the ingenuity of their presentation make it an educational museum.
During the Nazi occupation of Luxembourg (May 1940 – September 1944), the train station in Hollerich served as one of the main gathering sites and departure points for young Luxembourgers forced to join the German labour service ( the “RAD”) and the German military service.
Furthermore, thousands of politically unfavourable Luxembourgers were deported from Hollerich.
This evocative memorial to people who died because of Communism in Romania occupies a former prison in Maramures, not far from the Ukraine border. Each of the cells, including the one where former Prime Minister Iuliu Maniu died, is an exhibition space.
The Günter Litfin Memorial is part of the Berlin Wall Foundation. The purpose of the foundation is to document and convey the history of the Berlin Wall and the mass migration from the German Democratic Republic as a part and contributory factor of the German division and the East–West conflict in the 20th century. It also aims to preserve historical sites and authentic remains and to provide for a worthy commemoration of the victims of communist tyranny.
For nearly 250 years Denmark was a colonial power in the West Indies, now known as the US Virgin Islands. 2017 marks the centenary of the sale of the West Indies to the United States and a number of museums in and around Copenhagen have used this occasion to shed light on Denmark’s colonial past. Delve into the enlightening and diverse exhibitions. At The Workers Museum the colonial history of Denmark is used as the point of departure for a broader exhibition on human enslavement.
This 2 storey museum retraces the dark years of the Second World War with various objects and documents such as arms and uniforms, aviation material, posters. There is a video projection room.
The city of Dien Bien Phu, in North Vietnam, is mainly an historical site related to Indochina War. This museum is dedicated to the Battle of Dien Bien Phu (Điện Biên Phủ) in 1954. The collection mainly consists of assorted weaponry used by the French forces and the Viet Minh.
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.