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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as Holocaust memorial for short, is a memorial in Berlin that was opened in 2005 a block to the south of the Brandenburg Gate. It was designed by New York architect Peter Eisenman and commemorates the Jewish victims of the Holocaust perpetrated by Nazi Germany.

2711 concrete slabs ("steles") are arranged in a grid pattern on the 19000 square meter site. The steles are 2.38m long, 0.95m wide and vary in height from 0.2m to 4.8m. They are aranged on a sloping field, designed to produce an uneasy, confusing atmosphere.

An attached underground "place of information" will hold the names of all known Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.

The cost of construction has been projected as 25 million Euros.