Memorial to the murdered Jews of Europe.
Another Berlin post from February 2006. This is Peter Eisenmann's Holocaust memorial not far from the Reichstag. The slabs are meant to represent the gravestones from the Jewis cemetary in Prague, the way that, after many years the gravestones all lean at different angles and are different sizes.
There's no real viewing point of this memorial, you have to be physically inside it. Paths lead in a criss-crossing pattern through the stones. When you near the centre, some of the stones are over eight or nine feet tall and the paths are claustrophobically narrow.
I found it a very moving experience, walking through this memorial.
As I hope you can see from the photo, it was a beautiful Winter morning when we went there and the morning dew was still on the stones.
Well worth a visit if you're ever in Berlin.
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