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A monumental inscription is an inscription, typically carved in stone, on a grave marker, cenotaph, memorial plaque, church monument or other memorial. The purpose of monumental inscriptions is to serve as memorials to the dead. Those on gravestones are normally placed there by members of the deceased's family.
Stolpersteine for the Feder family in Kolín, Czech Republic Stolperstein installation in Amsterdam Beethovenstraat 55 on 3 October 2018. A Stolperstein (pronounced [ˈʃtɔlpɐˌʃtaɪn] ⓘ; plural Stolpersteine) is a ten-centimetre (3.9 in) concrete cube bearing a brass plate inscribed with the name and life dates of victims of Nazi extermination or persecution.
A commemorative plaque, or simply plaque, or in other places referred to as a historical marker, historic marker, or historic plaque, is a plate of metal, ceramic, stone, wood, or other material, bearing text or an image in relief, or both, to commemorate one or more persons, an event, a former use of the place, or some other thing. Most such ...
Park Crescent was damaged during the 1939-1945 war, and the plaque was believed to have been lost or scrapped in the aftermath. 'The Blue Plaque Guide' by Victor Burrows (published with the co-operation of the LCC in 1953) contains a line drawing by E. W. Fenton of 12 Park Crescent with the plaque shown in situ. [107]
Austria: in Vienna there are more 1,000 memorial plaques dedicated to the victims of the Nazi regime. Belgium: imitations are collocated in Mechelen in Flanders. Czech Republic: imitations can be found in Benešov, Brno, Liberec and Židlochovice, although the majority of the Brno memorial plaques are original Stolpersteine by Demnig.
At the ruins of burned homes, in front of illegal partisan hospitals and printing facilities, information boards replace memorial plaques. Some 4% of all the partisan monuments have been destroyed due to politically motivated vandalism , being stolen and sold to the color metal merchants or because the buildings where they used to be fixed were ...
The Shakespeare funerary monument is a memorial to William Shakespeare located inside Holy Trinity Church at Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, the church in which Shakespeare was baptised and where he was buried in the chancel two days after his death. [1] The monument, carved in pale blue limestone, [2] is mounted on the north wall of the ...
The inscription on the memorial plaque reads: Armenian Martyrs Memorial Monument: This Monument erected by Americans of Armenian descent, is dedicated to the 1,500,000 Armenian victims of the Genocide perpetrated by the Turkish Government, 1915–1921, and to men of all nations who have fallen victim to crimes against humanity. [2]