Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe—Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, the Holocaust-Mahnmal—was inaugurated in Berlin on 10 May 2005, and it opens publicly two days later. Designed by architect Peter Eisenman (with Buro Happold), it covers a 1.9-hectare site laid out as a grid of 2,711 concrete stelae, after planners recalculated how many could legally fit. Each slab measures 2.38 metres long and 0.95 metres wide, with heights ranging from 0.2 to 4.7 metres, so the ground reads as a field that changes as you move through it. Beneath it is the underground Ort der Information, which holds names of approximately 3 million Jewish Holocaust victims, using data from Yad Vashem. The memorial’s placement is also charged with earlier history: it sits one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, on land where the Berlin Wall’s “death strip” once cut through the city.
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