General view of concrete slabs or "stelae" part of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe or "Holocaust Memorial" located south of the Brandenburg Gate. 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 Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. They are organized in rows, 54 of them going northñsouth, and 87 heading eastñwest at right angles but set

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General view of concrete slabs or "stelae" part of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe or "Holocaust Memorial" located south of the Brandenburg Gate. 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 Buro Happold. It consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2,711 concrete slabs or "stelae", arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field. They are organized in rows, 54 of them going northñsouth, and 87 heading eastñwest 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.

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