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| The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe |
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, also known as the Holocaust Memorial or Holocaust-Mahnmal, is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 m2 site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 m long, 0.95 m wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.7 m. They are organized in rows, 54 of them going north–south, and 87 heading east–west at right angles but set slightly askew.
More information: Stiftung-Denkmal
An attached underground Place of Information, Ort der Information, holds the names of approximately 3 million Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem. Building began on April 1, 2003, and was finished on December 15, 2004. It was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, and opened to the public two days later.
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| The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe |
It is located in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood in Berlin, a city that had one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe before World War 2.
Nestled next to the Tiergarten, it has a central location in the Friedrichstadt district of Berlin. The memorial is close to the Reichstag building and the Brandenburg Gate. The monument is located on the former location of the Berlin Wall, where the death strip once divided the city.
More information: Berlin.de
It acts as a focal point, connecting the various holocaust monuments spread across the city and the country; the monument provides a central reference point for visitors. The center represents a central focus on the diverse memorial sites across Germany which stress the living memory aspect of remembrance. In Berlin an example of this is the Stolpersteine, tripping stones, initiative plaques on street pavements, usually outside the house's main entrance, commemorating deported Jewish residents.
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| The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe |
People have applauded the location of the memorial. During the war, the area acted as the administrative center of Hitler's killing machine. His chancellery building, designed by Albert Speer and since demolished, was a few hundred yards away just to the south; his bunker lies beneath a nearby parking lot. The memorial is also located near Berlin’s foreign embassies. Allowing political diplomats and leaders from around the world to observe how Germany acknowledges its past while continuing to move forward.
More information: History.com
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice,
racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine
the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
Tim Holden
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