10 monuments of the world, at the sight of which tears come to my eyes

These 10 monuments and memorials are filled with such dramatic and deep historical meaning that one glance at them makes you want to sob, because they are designed to remind us of what should never happen again. They awaken humanity and compassion in us.

Shoes on the waterfront in Budapest

The memorial was opened in 2005 in memory of the victims of the Holocaust. Here, on the Danube embankment, mass executions of Jews were carried out at the end of World War II. The Nazis tied them together, then shot at one man who, falling into the water, pulled all the others behind him. At the same time, people were forced to first remove their shoes, which they then sold.

Hachiko

Monument to the protagonist of a real sentimental story. The dog daily for many years met his master from work at the station. Once she never waited for a man, because he died of a heart attack. The faithful dog continued to come to the station for another 10 years in the hope of meeting his master.

Girl with a holey umbrella

On May 30, 1999, 53 people died in a Minsk underground passage as a result of a crush in the crowd. Only three of them were over 30 years old. The pandemonium was formed due to heavy rain.

Memorial complex "Khatyn"

149 people were burned alive or were shot by fascists in this Belarusian village in 1943, 75 of them are children.

Stela in St. Petersburg

The memorial is intended to remind of Decision No. 157c - a classified document of 1942, which gave the right to burn corpses in a brick-pumice factory.

Monument to the unborn children in Riga

These children could share with us the joys of this world. But this did not happen ...

Monuments to unborn children in Slovakia and Surgut

From the name of this memorial, the heart is torn to pieces: "Do not cry, mom, I love you anyway ...".

Monument to burnt books in Germany

These empty bookshelves under glass were installed in Berlin in 1995. The inscription on the monument reads: "On this square, May 10, 1933, Nazi students burned books." And the words of Heinrich Heine supplement her: "It was only a prelude, where books are burned, and subsequently people are burned."