The Holocaust Memorial

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A place for reflection, remembering, and caution, the Holocaust Memorial is a vivid reminder of the sorrow and suffering endured by Jews during the World War II era. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe comprises the stele field and the 'place of knowledge,' which work best together rather than in opposition to one another.

Things to do at The Holocaust Memorial

The memorial makes an effort to provide a different understanding of memory from nostalgia. Any attempt to reflect the tragedy of the Holocaust on a traditional scale is inherently inadequate due to the magnitude and scope of the event. The 'Field of Stelae,' a literal field of striking 2,711 geometrically organized concrete pillars, serves as the focal point of the Holocaust memorial. According to the memorial's architect, it is intended to inspire apprehension and perplexity and to demonstrate how an apparently 'organized system' can be challenging to understand.

More importantly, it serves as a continual reminder to never make the terrible mistakes of the past and to work to promote equality, decency, and fairness for everyone in our community. You can cross the sloping ground at any place and enter at any time, occasionally losing sight of your pals and the rest of Berlin. You can only experience the unsettling sense that the somber columns' varying sizes convey by navigating this concrete jungle's gloomy terrain.

The style is intended to evoke feelings of loneliness and grief, which is appropriate for a Holocaust monument. Visitors can roam among the stones and spend time reflecting on their significance, which is a profoundly moving experience. The only thing that separates each concrete stele from another is height; depending on where they are placed, they form an undulating pattern. The memorial's abstract design is meant to prompt introspection.

Visitors may briefly become disoriented when moving between the variously sized columns and the labyrinthine hallways.

Visitors converse on benches-high stelae in the narrow plaza corner, kids climb, and everyone takes in the expansive and thrillingly grand views of the surroundings, including the Tiergarten to the west. The Information Center, located beneath the memorial, has themed rooms where it details the atrocities committed during the Nazi era. An exhibition detailing the persecution and destruction of the European Jews is on display at the 'Place of Information' beneath the field of steles. The visitor initially learns the fundamentals of the historical background in the foyer before moving on to four thematic rooms that address the subject from both a historical and personal standpoint. The memorial inspires a pretentiously generic imaginative drama that has to do with death. Several unsteadily tilting stelae depict an old, neglected, or perhaps desecrated cemetery, and the memorial also suggests a graveyard for those who were unburied or thrown into unmarked holes. It recreates Anne Frank's persecution, flight, refuge, perilous existence in hiding, arrest, and murder, as well as those of her family members and fellow refugees in the secret annex. It serves as a monument to a slain Jew in Europe.

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Address of The Holocaust Memorial

Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany

Opening & Closing time of The Holocaust Memorial

  • Monday
    Closed
  • Tuesday
    10:00-20:00
  • Wednesday
    10:00-20:00
  • Thursday
    10:00-20:00
  • Friday
    10:00-20:00
  • Saturday
    10:00-20:00
  • Sunday
    10:00-20:00