Back Monument vir die vermoorde Jode van Europa AF النصب التذكاري للقتلى اليهود في أوروبا Arabic Мемарыял ахвярам Халакоста BE Monumant da Yuzevien Europa drouklazhet BR Monument als jueus assassinats d'Europa Catalan یادگاریی کۆمەڵکووژیی جووەکانی ئەورووپا CKB Židovský památník (Berlín) Czech Mindesmærke for Europas myrdede jøder Danish Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas German Memorejo por la murditaj judoj de Eŭropo EO

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
General view of the Memorial from the South
Map
52°30′50″N 13°22′44″E / 52.51389°N 13.37889°E / 52.51389; 13.37889
LocationBerlin, Germany
DesignerPeter Eisenman
MaterialConcrete
Beginning date1 April 2003
Completion date15 December 2004
Dedicated date10 May 2005
Dedicated toJewish victims of the Holocaust
Websitestiftung-denkmal.de

The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe[1] (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and 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 original plan was to place nearly 4,000 slabs, but after the recalculation, the number of slabs that could legally fit into the designated areas was 2,711. The stelae are 2.38 m (7 ft 9+1⁄2 in) long, 0.95 m (3 ft 1+1⁄2 in) wide and vary in height from 0.2 to 4.7 metres (8 in to 15 ft 5 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]

Building began on 1 April 2003, and was finished on 15 December 2004. It was inaugurated on 10 May 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II in Europe, and opened to the public two days later. It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Mitte neighborhood. The cost of construction was approximately €25 million.[7]

  1. ^ "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe and Information Centre". Retrieved 16 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe – Field of Stelae". Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  3. ^ Brody, Richard (12 July 2012). "The Inadequacy of Berlin's "Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe". The New Yorker.
  4. ^ Spiegelman, Willard (16 July 2011). "The Facelessness of Mass Destruction". The Wall Street Journal.
  5. ^ Tom L. Freudenheim (15 June 2005), Monument to Ambiguity The Wall Street Journal.
  6. ^ "Information Centre · Yad Vashem Portal". Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Retrieved 4 February 2016.
  7. ^ "The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe -History". Foundation for the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. Retrieved 4 February 2016.