SITES OF WAR MEMORY: SOME POSSIBLE THEMES
ANCIENT HISTORY
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Ayodhya |
Bonampak Murals |
Marathon Battlefield |
Masada |
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Megiddo |
Persepolis |
Thermopylae |
Troy |
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Western Wall |
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PAX ROMANA?
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Ara Pacis |
Arch Of Constantine |
Arch Of Titus |
Cannae |
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Hadrian's Arch |
Hadrian's Wall |
Temple Of Janus |
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ISLAM
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Al-Akari Mosque |
Badr |
Ditch, Battle Of The |
Karbala |
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Najaf |
Qal'at Salah El-Din |
Uhud |
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WORLD WAR I
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Anzac War Memorial |
Auckland War Memorial Museum |
Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial |
Gallipoli |
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Gavrilo Princip Monument |
Glade Of The Armistice And Railroad Car #2419D |
Menin Gate Memorial |
Saint Julien Memorial |
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Shot At Dawn Memorial |
Verdun |
Vimy Memorial |
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WORLD WAR II IN ASIA
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Chinese People's Anti-Japanese Aggression War Memorial Hall |
Chiran Peace Museum |
Civilian War Memorial (Singapore) |
Nanjing |
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Okinawa |
Tokyo Dome War Monument |
USS Arizona |
Yasukuni Shrine |
WORLD WAR II IN EUROPE
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Arthur "Bomber" Harris Monument |
Dresden |
Dunkirk |
Hitler's Bunker |
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Jedwabne |
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church |
Katyn Forest |
Mauthausen |
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Normandy |
Sutjeska |
Warsaw Ghetto Monument |
Warsaw Uprising Memorial |
HOLOCAUST
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Anne Frank House |
Auschwitz-Birkenau |
Babi Yar |
Bergen-Belsen Museum |
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Buchenwald |
Dachau Memorial Museum |
Mauthausen |
Memorial To The Roma And Sinti Holocaust Victims |
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Memorial To The Victims Of The Holocaust (Vienna) |
Treblinka |
Warsaw Ghetto Monument |
Yad Vashem |
COMPARATIVE GENOCIDE
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Auschwitz-Birkenau |
Choeung Ek Memorial |
Jasenovac |
Kigali Memorial Center |
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Memorial To The Roman And Sinti Holocaust Victims |
Memorial To The Victims Of The Holocaust (Vienna) |
Ntarama and Nyamata Genocide Memorials |
Srebrenica Memorial |
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Treblinka |
Tsitsernakaberd |
Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum |
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum |
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Yad Vashem |
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INDIGENOUS
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Batoche National Historic Site |
Bonampak Murals |
Chilcotin War |
Crazy Horse Memorial |
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Cut Knife |
Duck Lake |
Fort Battleford |
Gitwangak Battle Hill |
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Lachine |
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Little Bighorn Battlefield |
Martyrs Shrine |
National Aboriginal Veterans Monument |
Wounded Knee Battlefield |
CANADA
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Batoche National Historic Site |
Brock Monument |
Canadian Peacekeeping Monument |
Canadian War Museum |
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Chateauguay |
Fort Battleford |
Grand Pre National Historic Site |
Korean Veterans Wall Of Remembrance |
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Louisbourg |
Martyrs' Shrine |
Memorial Chamber (Ottawa) |
Montgomery's Tavern |
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National Aboriginal Veterans Monument |
National War Memorial (Newfoundland) |
National War Memorial (Ottawa) |
Plains Of Abraham |
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St. Eustache |
South African War Memorial (Toronto) |
Valiants Memorial |
Vimy Memorial |
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Windmill, Battle Of The |
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BRITISH COLUMBIA
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Canadian Japanese War Memorial |
Canadian Memorial Church |
Chilcotin War |
Nelson War Resister Monument |
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Nikkei Internment Memorial Centre |
Oak Bay Cenotaph |
Peace Arch (Surrey/ Blaine) |
Veterans Cemetery (Esquimalt) |
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Victoria's Cenotaph (Parliament Building) |
Victory Square (Vancouver) |
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AN AMERICAN WAY OF WAR?
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African-American Civil War Memorial |
Air Force Memorial |
Arlington National Cemetery |
Bunker Hill Monument |
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Korean War Veterans Memorial |
Lincoln Memorial |
Manzanar National Historic Site |
Marine Corps (Iwo Jima) Memorial |
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Minute Man Monument |
National World War II Memorial |
Pentagon |
United States Holocaust Museum |
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USS Arizona |
USS Missouri |
Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
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U.S. CIVIL WAR
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African-American Civil War Memorial |
Andersonville |
Appomattox Court House |
Fort Sumter |
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Gettysburg National Park |
Lincoln Memorial |
Monument Avenue (Richmond, Virginia) |
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GERMANY
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Berlin Wall |
Brandenburg Gate |
Buchenwald |
Checkpoint Charlie |
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Dachau Memorial Museum |
Hermannsdenkmal |
Hitler's Bunker |
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church |
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Leipzig |
Neue Wache |
Reichstag |
Topography Of Terror Exhibit |
RUSSIA
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Borodino |
Cathedral Of Christ The Saviour |
Field Of Mars Memorial |
Kremlin |
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Poklonnaya Hill |
Soviet War Memorial (Berlin) |
Volgograd War Memorial |
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ISRAEL AND THE ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT
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Al Nakba/ Israeli War Of Independence |
Deir Yassin Massacre |
Ghetto Fighters Museum |
Masada |
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Mount Herzl (Har Hazikaron) |
Sabra And Shatila |
Western Wall |
Yad Vashem |
IRAQ
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Abu Ghraib Prison |
Aimira Shelter Memorial |
Al-Askiari Mosque |
Baghdad, Battle Of (1258) |
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Fardus/ Freedom Square |
Halabja Memorial |
Hands Of Victory |
Karbala |
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Martyrs' Cemetery (Fallujah) |
Martyr Memorial (Baghdad) |
Najaf |
Saddam Hussein's Babylonian Palace |
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USS Abraham Lincoln |
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INDIA
| Ayodhya |
Chamkaur |
Fateh Burg and Baba Banda Singh Bahadur War Memorial |
Holwell Monument ("Black Hole Of Calcutta") |
| India Gate |
Kabuli Bagh Mosque |
Kalinga Battlefield |
Kargil War Memorial |
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Kurukshetra |
Mutiny Memorial (Delhi) |
Neuve-Chaepelle Indian Memorial (France) |
Panipat |
| Plassey Battlefield | Red Fort Of Delhi | Residency and 1857 Memorial Museum, Lucknow | Saragarhi Memorial (Ferozepur) and Saragarhi Memorial (Amritsar) |
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Tawang Memorial |
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PEACE MONUMENTS
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Ara Pacis |
Bruce Lee Monument |
Canadian Peacekeeping Monument |
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum And Peace Park |
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Memorial To Deserters In Ulm |
Nelson War Resisters Monument |
Peace Arch (Surrey/ Blaine) |
Shot At Dawn Memorial |
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Winter War Monument |
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BURYING THE DEAD
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Arlington National Cemetery |
Behest-e-Zahri |
Choeung Ek Memorial |
Martyrs' Cemetery (Fallujah) |
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Menin Gate |
Verdun |
Yasukuni Shrine |
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LIVING IN THE NUCLEAR AGE
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Atomic Testing Museum (Las Vegas) |
Bikini Atoll |
Eniwetok Atoll |
Enola Gay |
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Hanford Nuclear Site |
Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum And Peace Park |
Nagasaki |
Trinity A-Bomb Test Site |