Each panel shows a different aspect of life in the town's Prisoner of War camp between 1941 and 1946.
There's the Aussie soldier guarding the prisoners, the baseball-fixated Japanese, the music-loving Italians and the Indonesian mothers with their children (who, like most of the Italians, were interned because their country was at war with Australia).
For most of the camp's existence it was a calm place.
Then on 5 August 1944 the 1,104 Japanese inmates attempted a mass breakout, resulting in the deaths of 234 of them plus 5 Australian guards.
The memorial, supported by the Cowra Council, COWRA Lions Club Inc., Australian Lions Foundation, and Cowra Breakout Association, was erected at the POW Camp site on the breakout's 75th anniversary.
Location: Evans Street, Cowra
