Comments on: Berlin Holocaust Memorial

By: Brasilien

Brasilien — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:22:00 +0000

I am in Berlin from tomorrow and I will go to the memorial, I am sure, that it will be verry nightmarish.

By: Billigflug

Billigflug — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:35:44 +0000

I am not very attired in the memorial. In my eyes the museum of Auschwitz in Poland is an much more impressive, historical, creepy and effectual memorial. That stonefield in Berlin is just an ugly waste of place in my eyes.

By: Jon Husband

Jon Husband — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:15:35 +0000

I got the same impression when I visited it.

By: TAR ART RAT

TAR ART RAT — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 13:17:48 +0000

moving? yes. and also multi-functional: convenient for drunken midnight hide-and-go-seek as well as really easy le parcours…

By: Howard Weaver

Howard Weaver — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:22:17 +0000

Thanks for this post, David. I have never been there, nor heard it described in just this way.

By: David Weinberger

David Weinberger — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 13:39:48 +0000

David, I’ve replied via email.

Yule, I’ve never been to the Boston memorial. Some day…

By: Yule Heibel

Yule Heibel — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 04:31:43 +0000

@David Talbot: do you mean the site that’s part of / next to the Martin-Gropius-Bau (museum)? Nearly 20 years ago it held the exhibition, “Topographie des Terrors” (no translation needed), which was certainly memorable.

@David Weinberger: I haven’t seen the Peter Eisenman-designed Berlin memorial, but it sounds like it’s capable of making an impression. How does it compare, though, in your opinion, to what I think is the really excellent New England Holocaust Memorial in Boston (http://nehm.org/)? You know, I didn’t “run into” that one until the time I was in that neighborhood longer to take my US citizenship oath, and …well, it was moving, memorable, and impressive. (Both things, I mean, the memorial and the oath.)

By: David Talbot

David Talbot — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:50:30 +0000

David, be sure to visit the old Gestapo HQ–it is a ruin, but at least as creepy as the memorial you have described.

I’m really writing because I need to interview you for Technology Review feature I’m working on. Also want to make sure you are still writing a piece of commentary for our Sept. issue. Please reply to david.talbot@technologyreview.com at your earliest convenience, and send a good phone # and time to call. Thanks!