Memorial for the Convicts of Concentration Camps - Copenhagen, Denmark
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N 55° 40.729 E 012° 34.625
33U E 347653 N 6172993
Memorial for the convicts of concentration camps at the Church of the Holy Ghost.
Waymark Code: WMVK2H
Location: Denmark
Date Posted: 04/27/2017
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DEN: Monument for "Den ukendte koncentrationslejrfanges grav". Monumentet er placeret ved Helligaandskirken i København og er tegnet af Kåre Klint. På offerskålen øverst er indgraveret et digt af Halfdan Rasmussen: "MUSELMAND UKENDTE HJOB/ASKE I EN ASKEHOB/LEGIONERS SORG OG VÉ/SOVER I DIN ASKES SNE/MENNESKE UKENDTE VEN/GIV OS MENNESKET IGEN". På soklen lyder indskriften: "REJST OVER UKENDT KAMMERAT, DØD I TYSK KONCENTRATIONSLEJR". Foran monumentet er der lagt en plade med monumentets titel: "Den ukendte koncentrationslejrfanges grav". Titlen er noteret på dansk, engelsk, tysk og fransk.
Mindesmærket blev afsløret den 4. maj 1950. Forslaget blev kritiseret, da det i 1946 blev bedømt af Modstandsbevægelsens Kunstneriske Udvalg. På 8-årsdagen for våbenstilstanden i Europa, den 8. maj 1953, nedsattes en urne ved mindesmærket med aske af to koncentrationslejrfanger fra henholdsvis Neuengamme og Auschwitz.
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EN: Monument to "Grave of the Unknown Concentration Camp". The monument is located at the Holy See church in Copenhagen and is designed by Kåre Klint. At the top of the cabbage is a poem by Halfdan Rasmussen engraved: "MUSELMAND UKENDTE HJOB / ASKE IN A ASKEHOB / LEGIONERS SORG AND MOVE / SEND YOUR SPEECH / PEOPLE UNITED KINGDOM / GIV OS HUMAN AGAIN". On the socket is the inscription: "REJECT OF URGENT CAMERAT, DID IN GIRL CONCENTRATION LEARNING". In front of the monument there is a plate with the monument's title: "The grave of the unknown concentration campress". The title is listed in Danish, English, German and French.
The memorial was revealed on 4 May 1950. The proposal was criticized when it was judged by the Artistic Committee of the Resistance Movement in 1946. On the 8th anniversary of the ceasefire in Europe, on May 8, 1953, an ore was mined at the memorial with ashes of two concentration camps from Neuengamme and Auschwitz respectively.