MEMORIAL OF MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE

BRIEF HISTORY- HOLOCAUST

• Adolf Hitler led a group he recognized as Nazis, short for National Socialism.
• Those who didn't fit Hitlers ideal vision of perfect were sent to death camps.
• Jews had their rights stolen from them, and has to wear a yellow star.
• Not only were Jewish people affected, but so were Gypsies, Homosexuals & Christians/Catholics

LOCATION OF MEMORIAL

• Berlin, Germany
• Near to Brandenburg Gate , when Hitler was "promoted to chancellor. He held his first propaganda here.
• Information centre underneath
• Hitler and his wife killed themselves in a spot underneath this memorial.

WHAT IS THE THEME/MESSAGE?

• The Memorial uses ambiguity, allegory and symbolism.
• The theme is to convey emotions of Death

HOW IT CAME TO BE

• Peter Eisenmann was the architect of this memorial & it was dedicated May 10,2005.
• Lea Rosh (Publisher) had the idea of this memorial to be placed in Berlin.
• They had a competition in 1994 for a design, did not win approval.
• Over 800 Design entries. Won jurisdiction by German government in 1999.
• Construction started in 2003.

WHY DOES IT STILL MATTER ?

• There were more than six million of people affected during the Holocaust.
• It shows that we honor/respect those who were abused & taken advantage of.
• The memorial is an apology to the Jews for the atrocities Germany committed.

GLIMPSE OF THE PAST SUFFERING

• http://www.humanityinaction.org/knowledgebase/225-a-self-serving-admission-...
• http://unitedwithisrael.org/a-brief-history-of-the-holocaust/
• http://t.answers.com/answers/#!/entry/who-were-the-nazis,4fafc091ecb7a0e66f...
• http://www.history.com/news/brandenburg-gate-a-brief-history
• http://www.war-memorial.net/Memorial-to-the-Murdered-Jews-of-Europe-1.104