After the Mayor of Cologne initially prohibited the installation of the Statue of Peace “Đồng Mai” in front of the NS Documentation Center, the statue will now be unveiled on March 8 as part of the International Women’s Day rally and will remain there for three months. Đồng Mai (銅梅) (Vietnamese) combines the symbolism of the resilient plum blossom (Mai) with the enduring strength of bronze (Đồng), representing the unshakable strength, beauty, and perseverance of the Statues of Peace. Đồng Mai is the sister statue of Ari (Armenian: “the brave”) in Berlin and Nujin (Kurdish: “new life”) in Kassel. The Statue of Peace “Đồng Mai” as part of the exhibition “Art Against Forgetting” rom March 8 to June 1, 2025, the NS Documentation Center Cologne (NS-DOK) will present the exhibition “Art Against Forgetting” as a supplement to the traveling exhibition “The Third World in the Second World War”. The exhibition sheds light on the often-overlooked consequences of World War II in Africa, Asia, and Oceania. Both the fascist Axis powers and the Allies forcibly recruited …