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  • Day 41

    Retracing some Steps.

    September 10, 2018 in Germany ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C

    Back to the Brandenburg Gate because we forgot to see the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe.
    You should google it as any photos that we might take are insufficient to convey the size and feel.
    It consists of x concrete stelae of different heights arranged in rows and rows and rows.
    The museum was closed. Monday is museum rest day all over Berlin.

    Designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000-square-metre (200,000 sq ft) [2][3] site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38 metres (7 ft 10 in) long, 0.95 metres (3 ft 1 in) wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.7 metres (7.9 in to 15 ft 5.0 in).[2] They are organized in rows, 54 of them going north–south, and 87 heading east–west at right angles but set slightly askew.[4][5] An attached underground "Place of Information" (German: Ort der Information) holds the names of approximately 3 million Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.[6] Wikipedia
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