Memorial for the victims on the Iron Curtain (Cheb)
Coordinates: 50 ° 2 ′ 38.6 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 40.5 ″ E
The memorial for the victims of the Iron Curtain (Czech: Památník obětem železné opony ) is a memorial to the victims of the Iron Curtain in the former Czechoslovakia . It is located in the forest next to the road from Cheb (German: Eger) to Waldsassen between Svatý Kříž (German: Heiligenkreuz) and the border crossing.
Emergence
The monument was created by the Czech artist Antonín Kašpar on the initiative of the Czech historian Václav Jiřík .
dedication
It is dedicated to the 82 people who were shot or otherwise killed while trying to cross the border from Czechoslovakia into the Federal Republic of Germany between 1948 and 1981 .
history
The huge memorial on the former border was inaugurated on June 27, 2006, the 56th anniversary of the execution of Milada Horáková , who is considered a martyr for the freedom of her people in the Czech Republic.
The work of art shows the iron curtain, which is slightly open, with torn chains in between, as a symbol of the path to freedom that many refugees were looking for and could not end.
The left part of the curtain bears the inscription “obětem železné opony” (the victims of the Iron Curtain), on the right are the years of death and the names of the murdered people.
A memorial for the victims killed on the Czech part of the border with Austria is located near Mikulov (German: Nikolsburg). Another memorial on the Slovak part of the border with Austria is near Devín (German: Theben).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.vojensko.cz (cze.)
- ↑ a b c d e cheb.cz (cze.)
- ↑ Oběti železné opony mají u hranic s Rakouskem památník , in: Parlamentní Listy, online at www.parlamentnilisty.cz (cze.)
- ↑ austria-forum.org