I have always noticed this bronze statue whenever I walk past the Binnenhof complex. Some noble guy sitting on a high horse on the Buitenhof, overlooking the Hofvijver lake, in the centre of The Hague. I never give it much thought. A week later when I was visiting Luxembourg, I…
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Mayor Bosshardt
A monument right here in front of the Dutch branch of “Leger des Heils” on Oudezijds Voorburgwal 14, otherwise known as the Salvation Army. A bronze statue of a lady sitting down by the canal in Amsterdam’s Red Light District is none other than Majoor Bosshardt. The monument was commissioned…
Dutch Holocaust Memorial of Names
As I entered this garden, I found myself in a labyrinth of passages flanked by two-meter-high brick walls. The dramatic angular stainless steel mirrors seemed to be hovering above the columns. Upon closer look, names, date of birth and age of death were inscribed on individually stacked bricks. This is…
De Schaduwkade Monument
So, I stumbled on to another bridge with a story … This time, I stood here across the Amstel overlooking the Schaduwkade (Shadow Wall) Monument on my left. A monument to two hundred Jewish residents of the Nieuwe Keizersgracht in Amsterdam, who were deported and murdered during the Second World…