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Belchite, Aragon, Spain
Between August 24 and September 7, 1937, loyalist Spanish Republican and rebel General Franco’s forces in the Spanish Civil War fought the Battle of Belchite in and around the town.
After 1939 a new village of Belchite was built adjacent to the ruins of the old , which remain a ghost town as a memorial to the war.
Carlos Santero Photography
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1012 N. Main Street, Fort Worth, Texas, USA,
In 1921, Fred Rouse, a Black packinghouse worker, was brutally lynched in Fort Worth, Texas in front of a crowd of over 100 onlookers. He was first assaulted with iron bars by a mob of White union workers, who accused him of breaking their strike.
Then the White mob pulled him out of the hospital where he was receiving treatment and killed him. Last year, a century after his death, the Equal Justice Initiative, with the help of Rouse’s grandson, created a memorial for the slain man.
Now, Fort Worth is again reckoning with its racist past as the former Texas headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is being transformed into the Fred Rouse Center for Arts and Community Healing. The initiative is spearheaded by the Texas arts nonprofit Transform 1012 N. Main Street, which purchased the building in 2021. The center is expected to open in 2025.
Photo Ken Sparks; courtesy Fort Worth Camera Club and Transform 1012 N. Main Street.
Text Courtesy of Hyperallergic
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Henk van Rensbergen Photography
A bathtub sits in a decaying bathroom in the Abkhazia Parliament building. The expansive structure at the capital in Sukhumi was badly damaged by fire during the conflict of the early 1990s.
Bullets whizzed through the air and shells decimated the capital during the Abkhaz-Georgian War that began in August 1992 and lasted 13 months.
Significant human rights abuses were recorded on all sides and Sukhumi was the site of a months-long siege, which resulted in heavy civilian casualties.
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Petrova Gora Monument
Or the Monument to the uprising of the people of Kordun and Banija – is a WWII monument in Croatia celebrating the resistance movements against Nazis and commemorating those who died.
Ethnic Serbs and Croats fought together against Nazi and fascist occupation during the war.
The crumbling concrete and reinforced steel monument that was designed by Vojin Bakić and built in 1981.
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