Disabled persectives.
Celebrating Disability everywhere in everything.
Commemoration & Remembrance
Headstones, Grave Markers and Cemetries
The Grey Bus memorial
"Denkmal der Grauen Busse"
symbol of Nazi "euthanasia." Hadamar Germany
Memorial to the Grey Buses Hadamar 2023
artist Horst Hoheisel and architect Andreas Knitz
In 1941, over 10,000 people were transported to the Hadamar killing center on "Grey Buses", they were murdered because they were disabled as part of the T4 program:
During World War II, more than 300,000 mentally ill and disabled people fell victim to the Nazis' so-called "euthanasia action." They were deemed "unworthy of life."
By the end of the war, 90,000 patients had died in state-run sanatoriums through starvation, poor care, and murdered with medication. More than 70,000 men, women, and children were gassed in six extermination centers in 1940/41 as part of the secret "T4" operation. The mass murder was centrally organized at Tiergartenstrasse No. 4 in Berlin (hence the abbreviation “T4”).
Access for wheelchair : a ramp enables wheelcair users to pass through the sculpture.
The Holocaust MemorialHolocaust-MahnmalBerlin Germany
To the Jewish victims of the Holocaust committed by Nazi Germany,
by Peter Eisenman and Buro Happold.