Memorial Hanke

Memorial Hanke, visualization, open competition to create memorial, Ostrava, 2018.

The Memorial to the Victims of the International Camp for the German Population HANKE portrays and reminds the terrible crimes that have happened here. Every victim (a total of 231) who was executed here without a court represents a light hole drilled into a memorial plaque.  The shadows that are projected on the ground, due to the drilled holles, leave a temporary  imprint on the places where was the camp placed. The memorial plate itself is inclined as well as the  motives of those who tortured their victims and executed without trial and the rusty material increases the effec. The incline surface should cause the feeling of fear.  Text is placed on the bottom sheet so the viewer is forced to be confront with the object itself.  The strait shadow of the monument is timed for the afternoon hours.