B&W gallery: Berlin Memorial

The need - and the requirement - to

Remember is stronger in Berlin than

anywhere else I've ever visited, with the

possible exception of the concentration

camp at Dachau, just outside Munich

(I've not been to others - one was

enough). This very graphic image is part

of architect Peter Eisenman's installation

of nearly 3,000 concrete slabs, entitled 'A

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of

Europe', situated very close to the

German icons of the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Other

murdered communities are remembered in installations dotted all over Berlin: Gypies and

other ethnic groups in a secluded lake near the Reichstag, prominent politicians and others

outside the visitor centre at the Reichstag itself, and, cemented into the pavé outside

many residential blocks and elsewhere, the names of individuals who were taken from

those blocks and never seen again (lower picture).

The need - and the requirement - to Remember is stronger in

Berlin than anywhere else I've ever visited, with the possible

exception of the concentration camp at Dachau, just outside

Munich (I've not been to others - one was enough). This

very graphic image is part of architect Peter Eisenman's

installation of nearly 3,000 concrete slabs, entitled 'A Memorial

to the Murdered Jews of Europe', situated very close to the

German icons of the Brandenburg Gate and the Berlin

Philharmonic Orchestra. Other murdered communities are remembered in installations dotted all

over Berlin: Gypies and other ethnic groups in a secluded lake near the Reichstag, prominent

politicians and others outside the visitor centre at the Reichstag itself, and, cemented into the

pavé outside many residential blocks and elsewhere, the names of individuals who were taken

from those blocks and never seen again (lower picture).

Holocaust Memorial