Memorial for Ulster Blitz victims

Kyt · Apr 17, 2009

Memorial for Ulster Blitz victims - Belfast Today

A MEMORIAL service for one thousand people who were killed in the Belfast Blitz will be held on Thursday.
A bronze tribute will be dedicated to those who lost their lives in the Second World War Luftwaffe bombing on the 68th anniversary of the deadly air strike.

Protestant and Catholic church representatives will attend the service with a member of the Jewish community in Ulster and various political leaders.

The service will take place at 8pm in the exhibition hall of the Northern Ireland War Memorial at Talbot Street in Belfast's Cathedral Quarter.

Commissioned by the trustees of the war memorial, the bronze relief statue features cut-out positive and negative shapes symbolic of the space left by a person's death.

An orphan and a woman who has lost her baby are portrayed standing in a mass of fallen timber evocative of the destruction caused in the Blitz.

Hundreds of guests are expected to attend the service, including some who remember the terror, as well as families whose forebears died.

A thousand people died and hundreds were injured when Luftwaffe planes bombed Belfast on April 16, 1941. It was the largest loss of life in a night raid outside of London during the war.

German bombers also attacked on three other nights.
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Kyt · Apr 17, 2009

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