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Holocaust Memorials: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, M Morial de La D Portation

Holocaust Memorials: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, M Morial de La D Portation


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Chapters: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, M morial de La D portation, New England Holocaust Memorial, Holocaust Memorial at California Palace of the Legion of Honor, Holocaust Memorial on Miami Beach, Oregon Holocaust Memorial. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: ), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims and other victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square meter (4.7 acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae," one for each page of the Talmud arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38m (7.8') long, 0.95m (3' 1.5") wide and vary in height from 0.2 m to 4.8m (8" to 15'9"). According to Eisenman's project text, the stelae are designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere, and the whole sculpture aims to represent a supposedly ordered system that has lost touch with human reason. A 2005 copy of the Foundation for the Memorial's official English tourist pamphlet, however, states that the design represents a radical approach to the traditional concept of a memorial, partly because Eisenman did not use any symbolism. An attached underground "Place of Information" (German: Ort der Information) holds the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem. Building began on April 1, 2003 and was finished on December 15, 2004. It was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, and opened to the public on May 12 of the same year. It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighbor...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=80617


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  • ISBN-13: 9781157622376
  • Publisher: Books LLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC
  • Height: 152 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 68 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1157622372
  • Publisher Date: 15 Sep 2010
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Judenplatz Holocaust Memorial, M Morial de La D Portation
  • Width: 229 mm


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