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understandinglife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-08-05 11:49 PM
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92. So, where will the memorial for all those Bu$h slaughtered be located?


A Forest of Pillars, Recalling the Unimaginable

By NICOLAI OUROUSSOFF
Published: May 9, 2005

BERLIN - In the 15 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of Germany, the nation has struggled - painfully and sometimes defensively - to come to terms with its Nazi past. Nowhere has that been more evident than in Berlin, the restored capital, where a vast rebuilding effort has transformed the once-ravaged city center.

A cobblestone walkway leads between the pillars at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which formally opens on Tuesday.

A view of the information center at the memorial, where the display includes letters from those on their way to concentration camps.
The new Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, designed by Peter Eisenman, is the apotheosis of this soul-searching. A vast grid of 2,711 concrete pillars whose jostling forms seem to be sinking into the earth, it is able to convey the scope of the Holocaust's horrors without stooping to sentimentality - showing how abstraction can be the most powerful tool for conveying the complexities of human emotion."

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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/09/arts/design/09holo.html?hp



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