Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe

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The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also known as the Holocaust Memorial, 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 19000m2 site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. The stelae are 2.38m long, 0.95m wide and vary in height from 0.2to. They are organized in rows, 54 of them going north–south, and 87 heading east–west at right angles but set slightly askew. An attached underground "Place of Information" holds the names of approximately 3 million Jewish Holocaust victims, obtained from the Israeli museum Yad Vashem.Building began on April 1, 2003, and was finished on December 15, 2004. It was inaugurated on May 10, 2005, sixty years after the end of World War II, and opened to the public two days later. It is located one block south of the Brandenburg Gate, in the Friedrichstadt neighborhood. The cost of construction was approximately €25 million.LocationDenkmal für die Ermordeten Juden Europas—a Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is located on Cora-Berliner-Straße 1, 10117 in Berlin, a city that had one of the largest Jewish populations in Europe before the Second World War. Nestled next to the Tiergarten, it has a central location in the Friedrichstadt district of Berlin. The memorial is close to the Reichstag building and the Brandenburg Gate. It can be reached by public transportation, via the Potsdamer Platz exit on the U-Bahn Line 2, Lines S1, S2, or S25 of the S-Bahn and Bus Lines 100, 200, 347, M41, or M85.

"Das Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas mitten in Berlin ist die zentrale Holocaustgedenkstätte Deutschlands, ein Ort der Erinnerung und des Gedenkens an die bis zu sechs Millionen jüdischen Opfer des Holocaust. Es wurde am 10. Mai 2005 feierlich eröffnet. Das Denkmal besteht aus dem von Peter Eisenman entworfenen Stelenfeld und dem unterirdisch gelegenen Ort der Information. Der Eintritt ist frei."