Cherie's Place » Reconciliation http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:39:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Peace Bell http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2025/08/09/the-peace-bell/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2025/08/09/the-peace-bell/#comments Sat, 09 Aug 2025 00:22:36 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=27784 The Peace Bell

THIS BELL inscribed in English & German with the word – PEACE FRIEDE was presented to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, by Richard von Weizsacker, President of the Federal Republic of Germany during the Service of Reconciliation on the 50th Anniversary of the bombing of Coventry. November 14th 1990~*

The Peace Bell

*Quoted from a sign beneath the bell

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Thornflower has its roots deep in the artist’s childhood in Prague (which she left in 1939) in happy memories of her grandmothers’ home “Das Rosel Haus (the house of rose)” and in the death of her grandmother in Treblinka in 1942.

It is a reflection not only on the Nazi Holocaust but on “man’s inhumanity” across history, representing, in Charlotte Mayer’s own words “an urgent wish to make a sculpture uniting opposing elements of thorns and flowers, to speak of reconciliation, peace and oneness”.

Roses and thorns are never far apart in life, but it is the beauty of the rose that we remember.*

*from a signboard next to the artwork

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