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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.
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.
There is a plaque to Von Braun outside the centre, which includes an ice rink and a concert hall. [2] [13] A street in Huntsville is known as Von Braun Drive Northwest. [2] The public University of Alabama has a Wernher Von Braun Research Hall. [2] The university's website lauds von Braun and is silent on his Nazi history. [2]
The Yugoslav authorities established several memorial sites between 1945 and 1960, though widespread building started after the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement. Yugoslav president Josip Broz Tito commissioned several memorial sites and monuments in the 1960s and 70s dedicated to World War II battle, and concentration camp sites.
In the 21st century a plaque dedicated to the Confederate veterans which was on a wall by the stone monument was removed and it was cemented on the bottom of the Union plaque. The plaque was later stolen. Southern Arizona Veterans Memorial Cemetery. A small flagstone with a Grand Army of the Republic medal on the front of it honors the dead ...
Memorial in Manitoba Legislative Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba [3] Monument in Memorial Drive, Calgary, Alberta [4] Monument in City Hall, Edmonton, Alberta (first in the world, established in 1983) [5] Memorial in Wascana Park, Regina, Saskatchewan [6] Memorial in Dormition of the Mother of God Ukrainian Catholic Church, Mississauga, Ontario [7]
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To date, no definitive list of plaques lost to the official London scheme has been published. Identifying them is a matter of reconciling historic sources to the list of plaques maintained by English Heritage. [12] In many cases, the fate of the building to which a lost plaque was affixed can be determined via the pages of the Survey of London.