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Trelleborg, S

Berlin Wall in Trelleborg, Sweden

Location: Trelleborg Museum 1 segment Between 1956 and 1993, the private Swedish aid organization Berlinbarnhjaelpen (Berlin Children’s Aid) organized vacation stays for Berlin children with Swedish host families. Around 50,000 children between the ages of two and 13 were able to leave Berlin for eight to ten weeks. Carsten Bredlau and his siblings were among […]

Fátima, P

Berlin Wall in Fatima

Location: Santuário de Fátima 1 segment The history of the pilgrimage site Fátima goes back to a Marian apparition in 1917. In one of the prophecies, which were recorded many years later, the end of the communist regime was prophesied. When the Wall came down, many Catholics recognize the truth of the prophecy. Small stones from […]

Sosnówka, PL

Berlin Wall in Sosnowka

Location: pasture 50 segments Ludwik Wasecki, who emigrated from Poland to Sweden and is now practicing as a dentist in Berlin, is both artist and collector of art, especially of Wall segments. Immediately after the fall of the Wall, he started his installations with replicas of Wall segments in a pasture near Breslau and was met […]

Biala Podlaska, PL

Berlin Wall in Biala Podlaska

Location: on a cycle path in Miedzyrec Podlaski and Kobylany 1 segment from the Hinterlandmauer The district Biala Podlaska is the Eastern border of the European Union. Beyond the border is Belarus, the last dictatorship in Europe. As a sign of European integration and as a tourist attraction a Wall segment was erected in Miedzyrec Podlaski and in […]