The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is Germany’s official Holocaust memorial. It opened in May 2005 and occupies an entire block in Berlin near the Brandenburg Gate. The memorial is a field of stelae containing 2,711 concrete blocks of varying heights. They are unmarked.
Underneath the memorial is an information center with a powerful exhibition documenting and remembering the six million victims. As you walk through, you see excerpts from letters sent by family members to one another and see the chronology of atrocity as it goes from bad to worse. The mood is quiet and somber as you reflect on how something like this could have ever happened.
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