11 Monuments That Will Directly Touch Your Soul

In the world there are millions of monuments and sculptures that people pass by every day without paying attention. However, there are some with stories capable of leaving marks in everyone’s hearts forever.

This post from awesome.club is dedicated directly to these works.

The dying lion is known as the saddest monument in the world. This sculpture, which represents a lion wounded by an arrow, has an almost human facial expression and was carved from rock in the early 19th century. The high relief is dedicated to the Swiss Guards, who died during the assault on the French Tuileries Palace in 1792.

In 1944-1945, members of Hungary’s Nazi party shot thousands of people on the Danube river promenade. To save bullets, they tied approximately 60 people together and shot the first one, which, when it fell, took the others. Before the execution, they were all forced to take off their shoes, which were later sold. In memory of the dead, 60 pairs of cast iron shoes for men, women and children were installed on the river promenade.

Edith Stein was a Carmelite nun canonized in 1998 by John Paul II. In 1942, along with thousands of Dutch Jews, she was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp, where she died in a gas chamber.

On March 22, 1943, the village of Khatyn was burned by the detachment as punishment for hiding partisans who had killed a Wehrmacht officer. The 149 villagers were brought into a barn, which was set on fire. Those who fled the fire were shot. In 1969, in place of the destroyed village, a monument was erected in memory of peaceful people who died in the Second World War.

On August 6, 1945, a 2-year-old girl named Sadako Sasaki was at her home in Hiroshima. That day, despite the nuclear bomb dropped on the city, she did not die, however, 10 years later, she had leukemia, caused by radiation. Shortly before her death, she learned about the legend, according to which if you make a thousand origami any wish will come true. Sadako had one wish: to live.

The monument to Sadako, with a huge crane on top of her head, is dedicated to children who died and suffered as a result of the bombings in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

On March 2, 1942, on Melnikayte Street in Minsk, German soldiers shot approximately 5,000 people living in the Minsk ghetto. In memory of this tragedy, in the place of the shooting, in the year 2000, a sculpture called “The Last Way” was built, which consists of several dozen people who go towards the hole representing death. All the installation work for the monument, dedicated to all the victims of the Holocaust, was done manually and took 8 years to complete.

In a small Slovak town of Bardejov there is a monument dedicated to unborn children. In the original sculpture, copies of which were installed in different parts of the world, the boy’s body was made of glass. According to the idea of ​​author Martin Hudáček, the monument should recall the value of human life.

On June 10, 1942, the city of Lidice, located near Prague, was completely destroyed by German troops. The reason was the suspicion that guerrillas, hiding in the city, tried to assassinate a German officer. All villagers, including children, were killed or taken to concentration camps.

The Monument dedicated to the Women of the Second World War was inaugurated in the center of the British capital in 2005. On the black stone, 17 pieces of clothing are hung, including a nurse’s and military uniform, welder’s clothes and others, remembering the professions that women had to learn during the war.

Near Hyde Park, in London, there is a different monument dedicated to all the animals that were killed during all the armed conflicts that occurred on Earth. The monument shows two loaded mules heading towards the wall. Behind this is a horse in bronze and a dog looking back in search of its owner. The monument was created with money from private individuals, who donated almost 1.5 million pounds sterling.

The Monument to Unborn Children has its continuation created by Martin Hudáček, in 2015. This sculpture is installed in one of the cemeteries in the Polish city of Wrocław, where the babies were buried.