Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe Berlin
Germany - Cologne - Dusseldorf - Frankfurt - Munich - Stuttgart - Hamburg - Berlin
We are all aware of the immense torture and torment of Hitler on the Jews of Europe. 15 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the capital, Berlin has showed efforts in coming to terms with its struggling and painful Nazi past. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin was built as a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. It was designed by the architect Peter Eisenman. It covers an area of 19,000 square meters (4.7 acre).
There is an underground "Place of Information" in the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin which holds the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims. These names had been obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.
The concept behind the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin was given by a German journalist Lea Rosh. She founded a group to support the memorial's construction in 1989 and soon the Parliament of Germany passed a resolution in favor of building this memorial. The building of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin began on April 1, 2003 and was over by December 15, 2004. The inauguration of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin took place on May 10, 2005 and was opened to the public two days later. The location of the memorial was chosen to be the place of Reich Chancellery of Adolf Hitler during the Third Reich. The approximate cost of the total construction amounted to 25 million euros.
Visitors are able to enter this memorial building from all four sides and wandering through the place it gives the feeling of a silent graveyard. On the west side there's a row of 41 trees stands next to the Tiergarten Park. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin has photographs of Jews who ere murdered by the Nazis.
Walking through the grounds of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin gives you a strange feeling…the feeling of hollowness about those sad endings of the Jewish people as well as makes us aware of the common gains and losses in this world.
