Art and Culture in Berlin

"Set right in the middle of the city, between the Brandenburg Gate and Potsdamer Platz, the sprawling Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (more generally known as the Holocaust Memorial) was opened in 2006. Designed by New York architect Peter Eisenman, it features almost 3,000 grey pillars (stele) of differing heights; walking between is intended to give a sense of confusion and solitude, though it’s not unusual to see kids playing hide and seek and teens eating their Burger King on top of them. The underground information center is more poignant, presenting images, personal belongings, and stories from some of the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. Nearby you can also find the small Memorial to Homosexuals Persecuted Under Nazism and the larger Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism." - MATADOR_NETWORK