The memorial to all those murdered at the Buchenwald Concentration Camp, Germany by the Nazi regime. Two figures try to offer support to a fellow sufferer but their despairing expressions and clenched fists show the struggle to survive. Over 55,000 are reported to have given up that struggle, roughly 25% of the inmates of this supposed labour camp - "Jedem Das Seine".
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Pere Lachaise cemetery - The memorial to all those murdered at Mauthausen Concentration Camp, Austria by the Nazi regime. The figure lies beneath his burden of rock at the foot of the Stairs of Death. Mauthausen was designed to exterminate the intelligensia of Europe through hard labour - "Vernichtung durch Arbeit".
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The memorial to all those murdered at the most infamous Nazi Death Camp, Auschwitz - Birkenau in Poland. A series of camps where those unfortunates were either worked until they died through maltreatment or gassed. Is the ghostly figure looking to his God for comfort or is he passing on to heaven like so many before him? - "Arbeit Macht Frei".
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The tomb of Zenobe Gramme, voted the 23rd most Famous Belgian. The inventor of the first commercially useful electric motor . He sits with his dynamo tucked away in the pines at the Pere Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
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The tomb of French journalist and Republican Victor Noir. His death at the hands of Pierre Bonaparte in 1870 led to much public outrage at a time of significant political change in France. The bronze sculpture is worn away in certain areas, as many Parisiens have visited as an aid to fertility!
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