Photographer’s Note
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (German: Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), also known as the Holocaust Memorial (German: Holocaust-Mahnmal), is a memorial in Berlin to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000 square meter (4.7 acre) site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38m (7.8') long, 0.95m (3' 1.5") wide and vary in height from 0.2 m to 4.8m (8" to 15'9").
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Copyright: Claudia Fernandes (claudiaf)
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(4404) - Genre: Places
- Medium: Color
- Date Taken: 2009-06-10
- Categories: Architecture
- Camera: Canon 350 D, Sigma Zoom 18-200mm f3.5-6.3 DC
- Exposure: f/18.0, 1/800 seconds
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- Photo Version: Original Version
- Date Submitted: 2009-06-30 6:44
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