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Berlin 2016- Memorlal to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Sunday, April 9, 2017 19:34
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One of the must visit sights in Berlin is the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. This memorial was designed by American architect Peter Einsenmen. It is a very simple idea – but it is very powerful and I am sure most people who visit will find it evocative of the atrocities that visited the Jewish people of Europe during the 2nd World War.

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The Memorial is a forest of concrete columns sitting on an undulating ground. The ground sinks deeper as you go towards the centre. The columns at the periphery are only 1 or 2 feet high – but in the centre they are more then double the average human height and you feel yourself engulfed by the columns – and a sense of claustrophobia creeps in.

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The shape of the columns are rectangular. In proportion they are unmistakably tombstones. However to most visitors they are perfect places to sit. And to the small kids they are a perfect playground. It seems to suggest the peculiar human folly that we can be indifferent and oblivious to the horrors that go on even just around us.

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