Memorial Facts for Kids

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. An important memorial hall is the Nanjing Massacre Museum.

Images for kids

A wall-mounted memorial to Mary Carpenter in Bristol Cathedral.
Lightbox used as a memorial.
The Haymarket Martyrs' Monument at the Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois
Fan next to memorial statue of Bill Shankly
Maqam Echahid in Algiers, Algeria
The memorial monument of the 2011 airport disaster in Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia
The Airborne Museum in Arnhem, Netherlands commemorates the liberation of the city during World War II
A ghost bike roadside memorial in Berlin
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.
Homemade memorial in Brooklyn, NYC featuring a photo cut-out of the deceased giving the middle-finger
Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., United States.
Chiang Kai-shek Memorial Hall in Taipei, Taiwan.
Anıtkabir in Ankara, Turkey.
Mazar-e-Quaid in Karachi, Pakistan.