The Berlin Wall across the world
Location: in front of Central House of Artists (missing since 1991) 1 segment As part of the 1991 initiated exhibition End of the Berlin Wall – Start of a new Europe a Wall segment was set up in front of the Gorky Park in Moscow. The project of the Sakharov Foundation was supported by the Berlin Museum […]
Location: in front of Sakharov Center 1 segment Even before the collapse of the Soviet Union, Elena Bonner, widow of the human rights activist Andrei Sakharov who died in late 1989, founded together with companions, close associates and colleagues a foundation to preserve the heritage of Sakharov. This resultrd in an international conference, which took place in […]
Location: at the edges of Vatican Gardens 1 segment from Waldemarstraße Born in Rome in 1952, Marco Piccininni descended from a prestigious industrial family with good contacts into the Vatican. Thus, it is well to explain that Piccininni donated a segment, which he auctioned in Monte Carlo in 1990, to Pope John Paul II in the same year. […]
Location: Garden of Malteser Caritas Hilfsdienst 2 segments Hungary was the first country to open the Iron Curtain in May 1989. Thousands of East German refugees sought shelter in the German Embassy in Budapest in the summer of 1989. As more and more people crowded there and wanted to force exit permit to the West, a […]
Location: House of Terror 1 segment Since November 2010, a Wall segment is standing in front of the House of Terror in Budapest as a memorial memorial for breaking down walls and overcoming borders. The House of Terror is dedicated to the victims of totalitarian rule. The building has a memorable past: 1880 initially built as […]