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Holocaust Memorial
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Listen to the sound of your footsteps and feel the presence of uncounted souls
as you make your way through the massive warped labyrinth that is Germany's
central memorial to the Jewish victims of the Nazi-orchestrated genocide. New York
architect Peter Eisenman poignantly captures this unspeakable horror with a maze
of 2711 tomblike concrete plinths of varying heights that rise from an unsettlingly
wavy ground. The memorial's abstract design contrasts with the graphic and emo-
tional exhibits in the subterranean information centre.
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