Street Art UtopiaThe Empty Library memorial, to remember the book burnings done by Nazis. In Berlin, Germany.
Lou Plummer 💖
Biggles@amerpie @streetartutopia especially pertinent as we watch the USA purge online repositories of proscribed content.
Phyckle@Taco_lad @amerpie @streetartutopia
Interesting article about the US' webpage burning -and those trying to counter that- in The New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/the-data-hoarders-resisting-trumps-purge
buca@streetartutopia it would be nice include a desciption for blind people😉
Robin Barton@streetartutopia Books as temples to learning and the eternal conversation are always targets of the barbarians who howl into the darkness
JoelBarr@streetartutopia let's make sure the nazis are always a memory.
Karen Marei PetersSuch a horrific time.
Ruth O’DayThank you for sharing.
I only wish that the alt text had acknowledged that the library of Dr Hirschfeld (doing research and advocacy of trans issues) had been one of the first targets on the Nazi book burnings.
https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/magnus-hirschfeld-2
Allie Potts@streetartutopia i saw this installation for the first time when i was 16. It was the first time that I’m aware art changed my world view. Thank you for sharing
Crystal_Fish_Caves@streetartutopia The book burners/banners are NEVER on the right side of history.
looking at you, #gop morons
ErinMC2@streetartutopia
We spent some time at this site 6 years ago. It's a powerful warning and yet ... here we are.
We spent some time at this site 6 years ago. It's a powerful warning and yet ... here we are.
Thomas SeverinoThe famous quote, "Where they burn books, they will also ultimately burn people," attributed to Heinrich Heine, warns against the dangers of censorship and the potential for violence when books are burned.
🇨🇦🇩🇪🇨🇳张殿李🇨🇳🇩🇪🇨🇦@streetartutopia When will the branch library open in Florida and company?
Gordon Kerry@streetartutopia One of the saddest places I know.
JimmyB (he/him)A powerful image.
Yet rendered entirely ludicrous by Germany's embrace of the latest Genocide.
There is somethinbg sick about weeping over the Nazi's while embracing the new version, silencing those defending civilians being bombed to fuck, daily by Germany's Israeli fascist friends.
Someone should put a cover over this memorial now. The irony is too great.
Zilla@streetartutopia A memorial is good and at the same time heart breaking that the events they commemorate keep happening
Design-wise, a monument that is a hole in the ground is impressive. All other monuments try to be prominent, this one attracts because it is disturbingly hidden.
sollatPictures from 2018. From the plaque (second picture):
“BIBLIOTHEK”
VON MICHA ULLMAN
DENKMAL
DIE BÜCHERVERBRENNUNG VON 10 MAI 1933
GEBAUT 1994/95
gkrnours@streetartutopia they should make a second one next to it but with books made by trans people, to remind everyone of what the burned books talked about.
And at the bottom a QR code pointing to a digital library so people can read the book stored there.
And at the bottom a QR code pointing to a digital library so people can read the book stored there.
Alexander Goeres 𒀯@gkrnours the books that had been burned were not especially about trans persons ...
Holocaust Memorial Day Trust | 6 May 1933: Looting of the Institute of Sexology
On 6 May 1933, the Institute of Sexology, an academic foundation devoted to sexological research and the advocacy of homosexual rights, was broken into and occupied by Nazi-supporting youth. Several days later the entire contents of the library were removed and burned.
@gkrnours i know about hirschfeld. his research was banned. but still: the burning of the books was not specially targeting trans persons. they were part of the victims but they were not the main part ...
Tito Ciuro@streetartutopia @uliwitness Powerful. Should be bigger though. The message is worth it.