Red Star Line Museum

Red Star Line Museum

History The Red Star Line was founded in 1872 in Antwerp as the Société Anonyme de Navigation Belge Américaine (SANBA). Its creation was a joint effort between the International Navigation Company, a shipbroking company started by Peter Wright & Sons a year prior,...
National Memorial Fort Breendonk

National Memorial Fort Breendonk

History In the context of the German unification in 1870 and the outbreak of the French-German war of 1870-1871, there was a growing realization in Belgium that threats might not merely stem from the French, but also from the German side. In 1906, the law titled ‘plan...
Hrant Dink Foundation

Hrant Dink Foundation

Hrant Dink Foundation was established after the assassination of Hrant Dink in front of his Armenian-Turkish newspaper AGOS in 2007, in order to avoid similar pains, to continue his legacy. Democracy and human rights for everyone regardless of their ethnic, religious,...
Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum

The Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum was created by an act of the Polish parliament on July 2, 1947, and includes the grounds of two extant parts of the Auschwitz I and Auschwitz II-Birkenau concentration camps. The Museum grounds cover 191 hectares, of which 20 are at...
Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)

Stiftung Berliner Mauer (Berlin Wall Foundation)

The Berlin Wall Foundation was established as a foundation under public law by legislation passed on September 17, 2008. The foundation encompasses two institutions: the Berlin Wall Memorial on Bernauer Strasse and the Marienfelde Refugee Centre Memorial, both of...
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