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Memorial for the Murdered Jews of Europe (view source)
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, 03:46, April 29, 2008New page: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas) is a memorial located in the German city of Berlin, dedicated to the Jewish victims of the [...
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas) is a memorial located in the [[German]] city of [[Berlin]], dedicated to the Jewish victims of the [[Holocaust]].
The memorial was designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. Their winning design was selected in a national competition, and construciton was completed on December 15, 2004. The memorial consists of a 5 acre site covered with 2,00 concrete slabs which are arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The slabs are 8 feet long, 3 feet wide, and vary in height from 1 foot to 16 feet tall. Eisenman has stated that the memorial was designed to create an uneasy and confusing atmosphere that force the individual into a state of reflection. Likewise, in Eisenman's project text, the design is intended to twist an ordered system of geometric shapes into a system that has lost touch with human reason. An attached underground "Place of Information" contains the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims.
== References ==
[http://isurvived.org/InTheNews/Memorial2MurderedJews.html Holocaust Survivors Network--Remembering the Unimaginable]
[http://www.war-memorial.net/mem_det.asp?ID=104 Polynational War Memorial]
The memorial was designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. Their winning design was selected in a national competition, and construciton was completed on December 15, 2004. The memorial consists of a 5 acre site covered with 2,00 concrete slabs which are arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The slabs are 8 feet long, 3 feet wide, and vary in height from 1 foot to 16 feet tall. Eisenman has stated that the memorial was designed to create an uneasy and confusing atmosphere that force the individual into a state of reflection. Likewise, in Eisenman's project text, the design is intended to twist an ordered system of geometric shapes into a system that has lost touch with human reason. An attached underground "Place of Information" contains the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims.
== References ==
[http://isurvived.org/InTheNews/Memorial2MurderedJews.html Holocaust Survivors Network--Remembering the Unimaginable]
[http://www.war-memorial.net/mem_det.asp?ID=104 Polynational War Memorial]