Free: All time
Also known as the Holocaust Memorial, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is a memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust. The outdoor area is covered with 2,711 concrete slabs arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. These stelae are designed to evoke an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. There’s also an underground Information Center with photographs and statistics of the Holocaust. The project was first met with a lot of criticism. Today, it is a landmark in Berlin that tourists from all over the world visit.
Address: Cora-Berliner-Straße 1, 10117 Berlin
Opening hours: Outdoor Daily 24h; Information Center Tue-Sun 10am – 8pm (Apr – Sep), Tue-Sun 10am – 7pm (Oct – Mar)
Direction: U2, S1, S2, S25 to Potsdamer Platz Station
Phone: +49 30 26394336
Website: www.stiftung-denkmal.de/en/memorials/the-memorial-to-the-murdered-jews-of-europe.html
Photo credit: Alphamouse, Marcin Szala, Chocolatemedia
