Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

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The Memorial, July 2006.

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: 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 site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are long, wide and vary in height from . According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. A 2005 copy of the Foundation for the Memorial's official English tourist pamphlet, however, states that the design represents a radical approach to the traditional concept of a memorial, partly because Eisenman did not use any symbolism. An attached underground "Place of Information" () holds the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.

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The Economist: Germany's Jews (Jan. 3, 2008)
The Economist: Germany's Jews (Jan. 3, 2008)
www.economist.com/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10424406 - Web

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe at Archipl...
Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe at Archiplanet
www.archiplanet.org/.../Memorial_to_the_Murdered_Jews_of_Europe%2C_Berlin%2C_Germany - Web

Home page of the project
Home page of the project
www.holocaust-mahnmal.de - Web

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