Woodrow Wilson Memorial - Prague, Czech Republic
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Woodrow Wilson Memorial
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Location: Hlavní město Praha, Czechia
Date Posted: 02/17/2017
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Woodrow Wilson, who was president of the United States from 1913 to 1921, was instrumental
in the process of the establishment of Czechoslovakia in 1918.
The original 3.5 metre tall monument by Czech-American sculptor Albín Polášek was funded by Americans of Czech and Slovak descent and erected on 4th July 1928.
The statue to Woodrow Wilson was destroyed by Nazi invaders on the 12th of December 1941, a day after Germany declared war on the United States. After the end of the Second World War, in 1946, Jan Masaryk, the son of the first Czechoslovak President T. G. Masaryk, dedicated a special plaque to commemorate the destroyed monument. Fred Malek, the chairman of the The American Friends of the Czech Republic quoted Jan Masaryk’s prophetic words:
A long 60 years after that, in 2006, the American Friends of the Czech Republic embarked upon the project to re-erect the monument which has now been unveiled. The US Ambassador to the Czech Republic Norman Eisen spoke of the statue as a symbol of a long lasting friendship between Czechs and Americans:
Physical Address:
Opletalova
Prague, Czech Republic
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Woodrow Wilson Memorial
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