This Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, which opened in May 2005, was designed by NY architect Peter Eisenman and is dedicated to the six million European Jews killed by the Nazi government. The tribute contains 2,711 concrete slabs in an area the size of several football fields, lying between Brandenburg Gate and the site of Adolf Hitler’s bunker. It feels like you are walking through a labyrinth when you make your way through the stones, with the paths dipping and rising throughout the field. Eisenman said that he fought to keep names off the stones because having names would turn it into a graveyard. He prefers that people feel free to “use it for short cuts, as an everyday experience, not as a holy place.”

This Holocaust Memorial in Berlin, which opened in May 2005, was designed by NY architect Peter Eisenman and is dedicated to the six million European Jews killed by the Nazi government. The tribute contains 2,711 concrete slabs in an area the size of several football fields, lying between Brandenburg Gate and the site of Adolf Hitler’s bunker. It feels like you are walking through a labyrinth when you make your way through the stones, with the paths dipping and rising throughout the field. Eisenman said that he fought to keep names off the stones because having names would turn it into a graveyard. He prefers that people feel free to “use it for short cuts, as an everyday experience, not as a holy place.”