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December 17, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/germany_holocaust_memorial

Germany's Holocaust Memorial Completed in Berlin

(AP/Yahoo)Matt Surman - Construction of Germany's national Holocaust memorial to commemorate the 6 million Jews who died at the hands of the Nazis was completed on Wednesday in Berlin. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which includes 2,711 stark concrete slabs stretching over a plot of land the size of two football fields, is to be officially opened by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder on May 10, 2005. Architect Peter Eisenman said the undulating rows of closely spaced slabs set slightly below street level were designed to evoke the feeling of being trapped that Jews felt when they were sent to Nazi death camps.

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