Photos by Jody Paterson

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Jewish memorial at Berlin



Building a Jewish memorial in Berlin was obviously something of a tricky proposition. The artist created cement slabs of varying sizes and had intended for people to right their thoughts about the Jewish Holocaust on the slabs, but that plan was scrapped when everyone realized the disastrous potential of something like that. So the slabs are blank, creating shadowy corridors for wandering in and out of.

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