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An assistant in discussion with guests at the Information Centre
Visitors with audio guide at the Information Centre
Students‘ workshop in the Field of Stelae
Address
Cora-Berliner-Strasse 1, 10117 Berlin
www.stiftung-denkmal.de
Public Transport
Bus: 100, 200, M 41, M 48, M85, TXL
S-Bahn Station: Brandenburg Gate or
Potsdamer Platz (Lines S1, S2, S25)
U-Bahn Station: Potsdamer Platz or Mohrenstrasse
(Line U2), Französische Strasse (Line U6) or
Brandenburg Gate (Line U55)
C O N TA C T
O U R R E C O M M E N D AT I O N S F O R Y O U R V I S I T
ADDITIONAL OFFERS
P U B L I C AT I O N S
Service for visitors
(Mon – Thurs 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Fri 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.)
Tel. +49 – (0)30 – 26 39 43 – 36
Fax +49 – (0)30 – 26 39 43 – 21
Email: [email protected]
Audio Guide
The audio guide offers an insight into the history and
European dimension of the Holocaust. It includes reports
by the historians who curated the exhibition.
Available languages: German, English, Dutch
Price per person: 4 euros (2 euros reduced charge)
Free Public Guided Tours for Individuals
Saturday at 3 p.m. (English), Sunday at 3 p.m. (German)
A reservation is not required.
Meeting point: the elevator on the corner of
Cora-Berliner and Hannah-Arendt-Strasse
Maximum number of participants: 25
Free of charge
Folder
A folder on the Holocaust Memorial is available in
20 languages and in Braille.
Foundation
Tel. +49 – (0)30 – 26 39 43 – 11
Email: [email protected]
Press Office
Tel. +49 – (0)30 – 26 39 43 – 26
Email: [email protected]
Donations
Donations can be transferred to:
Berliner Sparkasse, Account No.: 6600 0076 62
BLZ: 100 500 00, BIC: BELADEBEXXX
IBAN: DE24 1005 0000 6600 0076 62
We are very grateful for your support.
www.stiftung-denkmal.de
Audio Translation
Audio translations of the exhibition texts are available.
Languages: Spanish, Italian, French, Hebrew, Polish
and Russian
Price per person: 4 euros (2 euros reduced charge)
Guided Tours for the Impaired
We offer a hand-held video in sign language for the
hearing impaired and a special interface for the blind
and visually impaired.
Only available in German
Free of charge
These three offers are provided at the information counter.
Guided Tours for Groups
The Foundation offers guided tours for groups in
various languages and a city walk »Berlin as a Memorial
Landscape« in German, English, French, Polish and Swedish.
Preliminary knowledge and possible special interests will
be taken into account.
Workshops and Project Days
A wide range of workshops on themes relating to the memorial and the exhibition are available for students. A full-day
project in the video archive that includes interviews with
Holocaust survivors is especially designed for students.
For adult groups the Foundation offers a workshop in
German and English with information on the German
culture of remembrance.
Further educational offers are listed on our website:
www.stiftung-denkmal.de
For reservations please contact our Service for visitors.
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Photos: Marko Priske, Dirk Laupner
Layout and graphic design: buschfeld.com
DVD and Catalogue
You can buy a catalogue and a DVD on the memorial at the
book shop at the Information Centre. Both publications
offer further additional material on the topics dealt with in
the exhibition.
The Background of the Exhibition
A book has been published by the Deutscher Kunstverlag
(German Art Publishers) which for the first time provides
comprehensive background information on both the genesis
of the exhibition and the Information Centre. It also supplies
a tour to related historic sites in the vicinity.
Testimonials
The Foundation publishes the testimonials of
Holocaust survivors in German.
Additional publications can be found at:
www.stiftung-denkmal.de
INFORMATION
MEMORIAL TO THE
MURDERED JEWS OF EUROPE
AND INFORMATION CENTRE
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Construction of the memorial, July 2004
Entrance to the subterranean Information Centre
CHRONOLOGY
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in the centre
of Berlin is the Holocaust memorial for Germany. It has its
origins in a citizens‘ initiative that was facilitated by journalist Lea Rosh and historian Eberhard Jäckel at the end of the
1980s. On 25 June 1999, the German Federal Parliament took
the decision to build the memorial according to a design by
Peter Eisenman and to establish a federal foundation to run
it. Construction began on 1 April 2003 and the memorial was
opened to the public on 12 May 2005.
The memorial consists of a Field of Stelae covering an area
of 19 000 m2 and containing 2 711 concrete blocks plus an
Information Centre. The exhibition about the persecution and
extermination of the European Jews and the historical crime
sites was designed by Dagmar von Wilcken. The exhibition
attracts nearly half a million visitors per year.
Following an amendment on 3 July 2009, the Federal
Foundation Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is
now also responsible for the Memorial to the Homosexuals
Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime and the
Memorial to the Murdered Sinti and Roma of Europe.
Room of Dimensions
R O U N D - T R I P T H R O U G H T H E I N F O R M AT I O N C E N T R E
Thank you for your interest in the memorial!
Please take note of the following information:
FIELD OF STELAE
· Visitors enter at their own risk at all times.
· Climbing onto or hopping across the stelae is not
permitted.
· Please refrain from noisy behaviour, smoking
and drinking alcohol.
I N F O R M AT I O N C E N T R E
· Short waiting periods may occur when entering the Information Centre, due to the large number of visitors and a
brief security check.
· It is not recommended that children under 14 years of age
visit this exhibition.
· Please switch off your mobile telephone before entering
the Information Centre. Photographing is only permitted
without flash.
· All baggage should be left with our cloakroom service
free of charge.
Please contact our visitors‘ attendants in the event of
questions or requests.
EXHIBITION PRELUDE
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The exhibition starts with an overview of the nationalsocialist terror policy between 1933 and 1945.
A timeline of images and texts deal with the persecution
and murder of European Jews. Six large-scale portraits
represent the six million victims.
ROOM OF DIMENSIONS 1
The first room centres on diary entries, letters and last
notes that were written during the Holocaust.
The personal level is enhanced above by a circumferential
row that provides the number of the victims for the
European countries concerned, using the borders in 1937.
Room of Families
Room of Sites
ROOM OF FAMILIES 2
ROOM OF SITES
Various Jewish lifestyles are shown, using the examples
of 15 families. Photos and personal documents reflect the
variety of European Jewish culture before the Holocaust
and illustrate the destruction, displacement and murder
of these people.
This room shows the geographical extent of the Holocaust
in the whole of Europe. The focal points are the crime sites
in Central and Eastern Europe. Historical film and photo
material represent 220 exemplary places of persecution and
murder of European Jews and other victims.
ROOM OF NAMES 3
C O M M E M O R AT I O N S I T E P O R TA L 5
Here the names and brief biographies of murdered and
missing Jews from all over Europe can be heard.
Presenting all victims’ names in this way would take six
years, seven months and 27 days.
A portal offers current and historical information concerning
commemoration sites, museums and memorials and provides insight into the world of European remembrance of the
Holocaust and the Second World War, also at:
www.memorialmuseums.org.
Thanks to the generous financial support of the
Association Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe,
the content of this room is being continuously extended.
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Commemoration site portal
A D D I T I O N A L D ATA B A S E S
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The name database of the Holocaust victims at the Israeli
Yad Vashem commemoration site with over three million
entries and the »Commemoration Book of the Federal
Archive for the Victims of the National-Socialist Persecution
of Jews in Germany (1933 –1945)« are available for
individual research.
VIDEO ARCHIVE 7
The »Voices of Survival« video archive offers ten computer
terminals for interviews with Holocaust survivors in ten
languages. It is open on Sundays. The videos can be searched for places, persons or events, using a multitude
of search options.
The lobby contains a terminal that documents the debates
on the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe between
1999 and 2005.