Holocaust Memorial Day

NEVER FORGET... The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany...
NEVER FORGET… The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, Germany…

As you may know today is Holocaust Memorial Day which is the time for everyone to remember the millions of people murdered in the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution, and in the genocides which followed such as in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia, and Darfur.

During my trip to Berlin in April 2018 I visited the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe which was designed by architect Peter Eisenman and engineer Buro Happold.

It consists of a 19,000-square-metre site covered with 2711 concrete slabs arranged in a grid pattern on a sloping field.

It is a very moving memorial and I always feel it is important that the Holocaust should never be forgotten and remembered by future generations.

The final three pictures in this slideshow are of the unassuming car park which was where Hitler met his end in the bunker underneath that area. Again it is important to remember its significance and never forget the horrors that its regime spawned.

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