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This impressive memorial bears witness to the official recognition of the crimes committed by the Nazis against the Jews.
It's hard to describe the strange sensation of vertigo, disorientation and anguish one feels as one strolls through this forest of irregular stones. A total of 2,710 concrete steles make up the site, designed by New York architect Peter Eisenman. This memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe is not a place to list atrocities, but rather a reflection on the unspeakable and unimaginable aspect of what happened in the death camps and during the Einsatzgruppen massacres. A more explanatory exhibition on the theme of the Shoah is accessible in the basement of the memorial. It pays tribute to numerous families through biographical accounts.
Visitors often confuse this memorial in the heart of Mitte with the Jewish Museum in Kreuzberg, which also has a memorial section designed to give the senses a sense of the horror. Yet these are two completely different projects. The Shoah Memorial is part of a policy to make space for memory in the new German capital. Not far from the Brandenburg Gate are other memorials to the victims of deportation. Opposite the memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe, another memorial to homosexual victims has stood since 2008. A little further towards the Reichstag, a memorial for Sinti and Roma has stood since 2012. Finally, since 2014, a memorial to the mentally ill and disabled, victims of euthanasia programs.
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Memorial in free access. Museum: 10am-7pm or 8pm depending on the season. Closed Mondays, January 1st and December 24th to 26th.
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