Berlin, Memorial for Murdered Jews, Holocaust Museum 2015

We went to the Memorial for Murdered Jews and it took us quite awhile to figure out how to get to the information center. I felt it was very worthwhile and moving experience. I met a man while I was reading information about a family in a small village and he told me that he was from that village. He was 8 years old in the war and he lived in the Ghetto with his family and later they went into hiding. He and his parents survived and but all his other family were murdered, grandparents, aunts, cousins and uncles. It was too overwhelming with too much information to take in at one time.

Information
On an area of about 19.000 square metres, the New York based architect Peter Eisenmann set up 2.711 concrete pillars - so-called steles - of varying heights to create a grid-like structure. The terrain is smooth yet unevenly inclined. Visitors can enter the structure from all four sides and thus the wave-like shape of each side is perceived in a different manner depending on where one is.

The extraordinary design, which was revised several times, represents a radical approach to creating a monument. The memorial is also complemented by a well-designed underground information centre, which was also designed by Eisenmann, possessing an unique form of architecture which encompasses 800 square metres visitors can learn about the victims of the Holocaust and the various places of horror.