Memorial

The memorial at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii commemorates American dead from wars in the Pacific.

A memorial is an object which serves as a memory of something, usually a person who has died or a famous event. Statues are a popular type of memorial.

A memorial hall is a building which serves to remind people of something, again usually people who have died. Memorial halls in the United Kingdom and United States are usually about World War I or World War II. Memorial halls in Germany and Poland are often about the Holocaust, when Nazi Germany killed many Jewish people. Memorial halls in China are usually about the Japanese part of World War II. Among important memorial halls, there are the Nanjing Massacre Museum and the Yad Vashem.

Memorial Media

A wall-mounted memorial to Mary Carpenter in Bristol Cathedral.
Lightbox used as a memorial.
Maqam Echahid in Algiers, Algeria
The memorial monument of the 2011 airport disaster in Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia
Memorial dedicated to the victims of the 2010 Polish Air Force Tu-154 crash in Smoleńsk at the Church of St. Roch in Białystok, Poland
The Airborne Museum in Arnhem, Netherlands commemorates the liberation of the city during World War II
St. Andrew Memorial Church in South Bound Brook, New Jersey, was built in 1965 to commemorate the victims of the Holodomor
Namantar Shahid Smarak commemorates the Namantar Andolan
The Victoria Memorial of Kolkata is an important monument of India
The grave memorial for a ten year old disabled boy; Matthew Stanford Robison. Salt Lake City Cemetery Utah.

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