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National Resistance Museum, Luxembourg
The National Museum of Resistance and Human Rights ( French: ''Musée National de la Résistance et des Droits Humains'') is located in the centre of Esch-sur-Alzette in the south-east of Luxembourg. The specially designed building (1956) traces the history of Luxembourg from 1940 to 1945 under the Nazi oppression, through the reactions of the people (passive resistance, resistance movements, forced enrolment, strike, refractory, Luxembourger in the maquis and in the Allied forces), until liberation, by photos, objects and works of art. There is also an exhibition of the Nazi concentration camps and the treatment of Luxembourg's Jews. History From the late 1940s, those involved in the resistance and political deportees began to plan a national resistance museum in order to preserve the memory of Luxembourg's victims of the Nazi occupation. A committee made up of the City of Esch-sur-Alzette, unions and representatives of resistance movements under the presidency of Ed Barbel, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Esch-sur-Alzette
Esch-sur-Alzette (; lb, Esch-Uelzecht ; german: Esch an der Alzette or ''Esch an der Alzig'') is the second city of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the country's second-most populous commune, with a population of 35,040 inhabitants, . It lies in the south-west of the country, on the border with France and in the valley of the Alzette, which flows through the city. The city is usually referred to as just Esch; however, the full name distinguishes it from the village and commune of Esch-sur-Sûre which lies further north. The country's capital, Luxembourg City, is roughly to the north-east. Esch was selected as the European Capital of Culture for 2022, alongside Kaunas and Novi Sad. History For a long time Esch was a small farming village in the valley of the Uelzecht river. This changed when important amounts of iron ore were found in the area in the 1850s. With the development of the mines and the steel industry the town's population multiplied tenfold in a couple of dec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucien Wercollier
Lucien Wercollier (26 July 1908 – 24 April 2002) was a sculptor from Luxembourg. While he worked primarily in bronze and marble, some of his work is sculpted in wood, alabaster, stone and onyx. His public monuments in bronze and marble are of particular importance. Works by Wercollier can be found in public places and museums in Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Luxembourg, Switzerland and the United States. During the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War II, Wercollier refused to join the Reichskulturkammer, the Nazi organization that ensured all artists' works were of an acceptably " Aryan" spirit. This refusal put him at odds with the Nazi occupiers, and when he participated in the 1942 nationwide strike, he was arrested on September 4, 1942. Wercollier was first imprisoned in the Neumünster Abbey in Luxembourg City. Today, the Abbey is home to the Lucien Wercollier Cloister, where many works from his private collection are permanently displayed. In 1965 when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
World War II Museums
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National Museums Of Luxembourg
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List Of Museums In Luxembourg
This is a list of museums in Luxembourg. Luxembourg City *A Gadder *Abbey Museum *Am Tunnel *Casino Luxembourg *European Museum Schengen *General Patton Museum *Industry and Railway Park Fond-de-Gras *Konschthal Esch *Kulturhuef Asbl *Luxembourgish Aviation Museum *Luxembourg City History Museum *Luxembourg Science Center *MNM Rumelange *MUDAM *Muerbelsmillen *Musée de l'Ardoise *Musée Automobile - Conservatoire National de Véhicules Historiques *Musée de la caricature *Musée Dräi Eechelen *Musee the Family of Man *Musée d'Histoire(s) Diekirch *Musée Littéraire 'Victor Hugo' *Musée A Possen *Musee Rural *Musée Rural Asbl *Musée Rural Binsfeld *Museum-Memorial of Deportation *National Audiovisual Centre *National Mining Museum, Luxembourg *National Museum of History and Art *National Museum of Military History (Luxembourg) *National Museum of Natural History (Luxembourg) * National Resistance Museum, Luxembourg *Photothèque (Luxembourg) *Prehistory Museum, Echternac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Patrick Galbats
Patrick Galbats (born 1978) is a freelance Luxembourg photographer and photojournalist who has completed a number of artistically presented reportages. Biography Galbats completed his schooling at the Lycée Technique des Arts et Métiers in Luxembourg City. After studying at the ''Ecole Septante-Supérieure de l'Image: Le 75'' in Brussels, he joined the young photographers' collective ''photon.lu''. From 2002 to 2006, he worked for the Luxembourg weekly magazine ''Revue''. Since 2007, he has been a freelance photographer. In 2001, Galbats took a series of photographs at Luxembourg's Centre Pénitentiaire. In 2003, he completed an assignment on street people and drug addicts which was exhibited at the main railway station. In 2004, the National Audiovisual Centre published his work ''DOïNA'', a collection he created during three trips to Romania (2001–2003). In 2004, he presented the reportage ''Un autre regard sur Haïti'' for ''Objectif Tiers Monde'' which reveals the conditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lily Unden
Léonie (Lily) Unden (26 February 1908 – 5 September 1989) was a Luxembourg poet, painter and educator who was sent to the Ravensbrück concentration camp for taking part in the Luxembourg Resistance during the Second World War. Thanks to her flower paintings, she is remembered as one of Luxembourg's most celebrated female painters. Biography Born in Longwy, France, Lily Unden was the daughter of Emile Charles Unden, a Luxembourger, who was a civil engineer in a factory in Longwy-Bas. She returned to Luxembourg with her family just before the First World War, settling in Muhlenbach quarter of Luxembourg City. After earning her baccalauréat from the École Saint-Joseph, she studied art in Brussels, Paris, Metz and Strasbourg. Under worked as a painter until the German occupation but as she refused to join the Nazi Volksdeutsche Bewegung, she was assigned to work in a pharmacy. She became a member of the Luxembourg Resistance but was arrested by the Gestapo on 3 November 1942 and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Ravensbrück () was a German concentration camp exclusively for women from 1939 to 1945, located in northern Germany, north of Berlin at a site near the village of Ravensbrück (part of Fürstenberg/Havel). The camp memorial's estimated figure of 132,000 women who were in the camp during the war includes about 48,500 from Poland, 28,000 from the Soviet Union, almost 24,000 from Germany and Austria, nearly 8,000 from France, and thousands from other countries including a few from the United Kingdom and the United States. More than 20,000 of the total were Jewish, approximately 15%. 85% were from other races and cultures. More than 80% were political prisoners. Many prisoners were employed as slave labor by Siemens & Halske. From 1942 to 1945, the Nazis undertook medical experiments to test the effectiveness of sulfonamides. In the spring of 1941, the SS established a small adjacent camp for male inmates, who built and managed the camp's gas chambers in 1944. Of some 130,000 fema ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yvonne Useldinger
Yvonne Useldinger (née Hostert; 6 November 1921 – 11 February 2009) was a Luxembourgian politician. Life Yvonne Hostert was born in Differdange, and became in 1937 a member of the Young Socialists. In 1938 she joined the Communist Party of Luxembourg. In 1940 she married Arthur Useldinger, a senior figure in the Communist Party. In 1941 she was arrested by the Gestapo, but was released due to a lack of evidence against her. A year later, by which time she had become pregnant, she was arrested again, with her parents and brother. Her daughter, Fernande, was born in a jail in Trier. In late June 1943 she was deported to Ravensbrück concentration camp, where she later became a member of an illegal underground organisation. Her father was deported first to Hinzert concentration camp, later to Mauthausen; her brother was sent to Dachau. Her mother was released, and took care of Yvonne's baby. Yvonne Useldinger was transferred in December 1944 from Ravensbrück camp to a secondary ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hinzert Concentration Camp
Hinzert was a concentration camp in Nazi Germany, in what is now Rhineland-Palatinate, from the border with Luxembourg. Between 1939 and 1945, 13,600 political prisoners between the ages of 13 and 80 were imprisoned at Hinzert. Many were in transit towards larger concentration camps where most would be killed. However, many prisoners were executed at Hinzert. The camp was administered, run, and guarded mainly by the SS, who, according to Hinzert survivors, were notorious for their brutality and viciousness. Location and layout Located on the ''Hochwald'' plateau, and overlooking the Hunsrück mountain range, the Hinzert concentration camp was named after the nearest village, now called Hinzert-Pölert. At an altitude of 550m, the plateau is exposed to much humidity, wind, strong precipitation, fog and glacial temperatures in winter. The camp was surrounded by a coniferous forest that provided lumber for the camp's construction and maintenance. An access road that first b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Foni Tissen
Foni (Alphonse) Tissen (1909–1975) was a Luxembourg schoolteacher and artist who is remembered principally for his hyperrealistic, darkly humorous paintings, many of which were self-portraits. Early life and education Tissen was born on 3 June 1909 in Rumelange in the south of Luxembourg. After primary school in Rumelange, he attended the Lycée Poincaré in Nancy before studying painting and architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. There he met the Luxembourg sculptor Auguste Trémont who not only became a key advisor but a close friend for the rest of his life. In 1929, he embarked on a lengthy world trip on a passenger liner before continuing his studies a few years later in Munich and Brussels. Career In 1939, together with other artists, he represented Luxembourg at the 1939 New York World's Fair The 1939–40 New York World's Fair was a world's fair held at Flushing Meadows–Corona Park in Queens, New York, United States. It was the second-most expe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
