Tag: Monuments
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A new golem is born with a new mission — protecting vulnerable communities and cultural history
Iraqi-American artist Michael Rakowitz has created an American Golem, a monument made from fragments of other monuments, as a way of reconstructing and redefining destructed cultural works.
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Two monuments to Nazi collaborators discovered hiding in plain sight near Detroit and Philadelphia
Two monuments honoring the SS Galichina, a unit of Ukrainian soldiers that fought under Hitler in World War II, have been discovered in a Catholic cemetery near Philadelphia and on a Ukrainian credit union building in Warren, Michigan.
The Veselka youth camp in Canning, a town on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, has a monument honoring Nazi collaborators Stepan Bandera and Roman Shukhevych.
An investigation by The Forward has revealed that there are hundreds of statues and monuments around the world honoring individuals who collaborated with the Nazis and participated in the Holocaust.
The text discusses the ongoing debate surrounding statues of individuals with a history of oppressing specific groups, particularly focusing on monuments to anti-Semites.