Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

A cobblestone walkway leads between the pillars at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, which formally opens on Tuesday.

The new Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, designed by Peter Eisenman, is the apotheosis of this soul-searching and shows how abstraction can be a powerful tool for conveying human emotion. A vast grid of 2,711 concrete pillars whose jostling forms seem to be sinking into the earth, it is able to convey the scope of the Holocaust's horrors without stooping to sentimentality - showing how abstraction can be the most powerful tool for conveying the complexities of human emotion.
«in New York Times»