Work starts on monument to Roma and Sinti victims of nazis
SHOTLIST
1. Mid of top of German parliament, the Reichstag, with German flag flying, pan down to guests at the memorial site for the Sinti and Roma (Gypsy) victims of the Nazi dictatorship during the Second World War
2. Mid of guests at the memorial
3. Wide of guests at memorial opening service
4. Mid of guests at memorial opening service
5. SOUNDBITE (German) Bernd Neumann, Minister for Culture:
The Federal Republic (meaning Germany) admits its historical responsibilities towards the people who, during nazism, were followed as they were gypsies.
6. Close of members of the Sinti and Roma communities
7. Wide of memorial service
8. SOUNDBITE: (German) Romani Rose, Head of the Central Committee for Sinti and Roma:
The memorial that is being placed here, means that the Holocaust that our minority lost, that is five hundred thousand Sinti and Roma in Europe, in the middle of Europe; in Germany has arrived and that means that democracy and the European community has taken over its responsibilities.
9. Mid of Culture Minister Bernd Neumann (left in picture) and the Lord Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit (right in picture), at the wreath service at the new memorial site for murdered Sinti and Roma or Zigeuner (Gypsies) in Berlin.
10. Pan from wreath down to ribbon
11. SOUNDBITE: (German) Natascha Winter, Head of the Alliance of Sinti and Roma in Germany:
I think that this has a positive effect because the government of today is clearing itself from this evil event and to recognise us not only as a part of the population but also to give us the feeling of trust, that we have belonged to the population over the last several hundred years, because we define ourselves as German gypsies and now we have feeling that we really belong.
12. Wide pan from the Reichstag down to a wreath at the new memorial site for Sinti and Roma victims of the Nazi dictatorship
STORYLINE:
Germany started building a memorial on Friday to the Sinti and Roma, commonly referred to as Gypsies, persecuted by the Nazis during the Second World War.
Construction on the square-shaped well in Berlin's central Tiergarten park comes after 16 years of debate among leading groups representing Germany's Sinti and Roma.
It is to be completed in 2009.
Germany's Central Council for Sinti and Roma leader Romani Rose praised the government for recognising its historical responsibility for those Gypsies who were persecuted under the Nazis at the Friday ground-breaking ceremony.
Some 220-thousand to 500-thousand Sinti and Roma, or Gypsies, were killed during the Holocaust.
On Friday in Berlin a commemoration to mark the official start of the building process took place.
About 80 people were present, including the Lord Mayor of Berlin, Klaus Wowereit, and the Culture Minister, Bernd Neumann.
Leading representatives from the Sinti and Roma communities were also present, including Rose, and Natascha Winter; chairperson of the Alliance of Sinti and Roma in Germany.
The memorial for the murdered Sinti and Roma during the third Reich is to be funded by the German government. The memorial will be designed by the Israel Artist, Dani Karavan, and will cost two (m) million Euros (2.8 (m) million US Dollars).
The location of the memorial is to the south of the Reichstag, the German parliament building in Tiergarten Park, in the centre of Berlin.
The memorial should be completed in 2009.
Berlin also hosts memorials to Jews killed in the Holocaust and gay victims of the Nazis Dictatorship.
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Merkel and survivors open Roma genocide memorial
German Chancellor Angela Merkel inaugurates a sombre memorial to the estimated half million Roma and Sinti murdered by the Nazis. Duration: 00:48
Work starts on memorial to victims of Nazi programme of euthanasia
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SHOTLIST 1. Pan from Philharmonic building to memorial site dedicated to people murdered by the Nazis
2. Wide of Germany's state minister for culture, Bernd Neumann, addressing ceremony
3. SOUNDBITE: (German) Bernd Neumann, State secretary for Culture and Media:
Here, at Tiergartenstrasse number 4, was the planning centre where the National Socialist (Nazi) regime planned the killing, which was represented as euthanasia.
4. Wide of exhibition accompanying planned memorial, entitled Topography of Terror
5. Close up poster reading: (German) 60000 Reichsmarks is the cost of that diseased man for the People community, that is also your money
6. Picture of transport bus for disabled people
7. Picture of building formerly at Tiergartenstrasse number 4
8. SOUNDBITE: (German) Dr. Andreas Nachama, Director of Topography of Terror exhibition
Helpless children, old people who needed care - just to say that costs us a a lot of money, we will get rid off them. This was planned from here and then - with the thoroughness of the Third Reich - carried out.
9. Mid of Sigrid Falkenstein, whose aunt was killed when she was 24 years old, and who wrote a book called Annas Spuren
10. Pan of memorial display ending on picture of Anna Lehnkering (left in picture), Falkenstein's aunt who was killed when she was 24 years old
11. SOUNDBITE: (German) Sigrid Falkenstein, German
Perpetrator and victim, one cannot separate those from each other. To show all this here at this particular location, is important to me. This is not supposed to be just a monument where you can give Sunday service speeches or where you lay down wreaths. No, this must inform people and then it might become a place of learning.
12. Close of drummer at memorial ceremony
13. Wide of musicians
14. Picture showing design of memorial
STORYLINE:
Work got underway in Berlin on Monday, on a memorial dedicated to around 300-thousand people murdered by the Nazis because of mental and physical disabilities or chronic illness.
The memorial - a 100-foot (30 metre) long light-blue glass wall - will be located in the centre of Berlin near the current home of the Berlin Philharmonic, on the site of the Nazi office that coordinated the so-called euthanasia programme.
At a ceremony to mark the beginning of work on the memorial, German State secretary for Culture and Media Bernd Neumann,told those gathered: Here, at Tiergartenstrasse number 4, was the planning centre where the National Socialist (Nazi) regime planned the killing, which was represented as euthanasia.
He pointed out that educating people about the crimes of the Nazis and honouring their victims remains an obligation for the country.
An exhibition accompanying the memorial entitled Topography of Terror was also on display.
Amongst the items featured is a Nazi propaganda poster telling people the cost of caring for a disabled person.
Director of the exhibition Dr. Andreas Nachama said that helpless children and old people who needed care were amongst those whose disposal was carried out by the Third Reich (Nazi regime).
Also present at Monday's ceremony was Sigrid Falkenstein, whose aunt was killed when she was 24 years old, and who subsequently wrote a book about her called Annas Spuren.
To show all this here at this particular location, is important to me, she said. This is not supposed to be just a monument where you can give Sunday service speeches or where you lay down wreaths. No, this must inform people and then it might become a place of learning.
In recent years, several victims' groups, among them the Jews, Roma and Sinti, and homosexuals, have had memorials dedicated to them in Berlin.
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20190804 ~ Porajmos Memorial Sinti Roma Europe
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Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Victims of National Socialism, filmed in 2013 in the Tiergarten (close to other Holocaust memorials) in Berlin - south of the Reichstag and near the Brandenburg Gate, in Germany.
The monument is dedicated to the memory of the 220,000 – 500,000 or more ( people murdered in the Porajmos (the Devouring or Destruction) – the Nazi genocide of the European Sinti and Roma peoples.
August 2 is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day, commemorating this genocide of Roma people during World War II. Declared by the European Parliament in 2015, the day marks the anniversary of the extermination of more than 3,000 Roma at Auschwitz-Birkenau in the night August 2-3 in 1944.
Over the first three August days - starting July 31 - the so-called Gypsy Camp in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration and extermination camp was dissolved – or liquidated, as the SS called it. The last remaining inmates there — men, women and children — were brought to the gas chambers and murdered.
Settela Steinbach (9) was one of those murdered early August 1944, now 75 years ago.
The memorial (by the Israeli artist Dani Karavan) consists of a circular pool of water with a triangular stone in the center (not shown in this film) upon which a fresh flower is placed daily. In bronze letters around the edge of the pool is the poem 'Auschwitz' by Roma poet Santino Spinelli :
Gaunt face
dead eyes
cold lips
quiet
a broken heart
out of breath
without words
no tears
Germany commemorates Roma victims of Holocaust
German Chancellor Angela Merkel officially opened a memorial to the estimated half-million ethnic Roma and Sinti who were murdered by the Nazi regime during the World War II era because of their race. The memorial, built with a 2.8-million-euro grant from the German federal government, has been constructed near the Reichstag parliament building in central Berlin, close to other memorials.The Holocaust was a unique event in 20th century history. It evolved slowly between 1933 and 1945. It began with discrimination; then the Jews were separated from their communities and persecuted; and finally they were treated as less than human beings and murdered. During the Second World War the Nazis sought to murder the entire Jewish population of Europe and to destroy its culture. In 1941 there were about 11 million Jews living in Europe; by May 1945 the Nazis had murdered six million of them. One-and-a-half million of these were children. These events came to be called as Holocaust.Whilst the Jews of Europe were the Nazis’ primary target, many millions of other people were also imprisoned, enslaved and murdered. These people included the Roma community members. German Chancellor Angela Merkel officially inaugurated a memorial in remembrance of Roma and Snti victims who were murdered by the Nazi regime during the World War II era because of their race. Roma and Sinti are a related people who live mostly in German-speaking areas of Central Europe. Angela Merkel was joined at the somber unveiling by about 100 elderly Romany survivors of the extermination camps that were operated by the Nazis, who viewed Roma, Jews, and others as inferior to themselves. German Chancellor Merkel has said it is important to create memorial sites to support what she called a “culture of remembering.” Israeli artist Dani Karavan has designed the memorial. A fresh flower will be laid on the plinth at the centre of the memorial every day. A chronology of the Nazi extermination campaign stands next to the memorial.The memorial has been opened in Berlin, the German capital. The circular pool is located across the street from the German parliament building. It is unclear how many Roma were rounded up and killed in the death camps during World War Two, but estimates reach as high as half a million. This is the third Holocaust memorial in Berlin.Chancellor Angela Merkel finally opened a much-delayed memorial to Roma victims of the Nazi regime this week. Situated by parliament, it is meant to both commemorate the dead and stress the need to protect the living from hate and prejudice.
WRAP Update on inauguration of holocaust memorial
SHOTLIST
1. Aerial of holocaust memorial
2. Closer shot memorial
3. Inauguration ceremony of memorial
4. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Wolfgang Thierse, President of the German Bundestag
5. Orchestra playing
6. Orchestra finishing
7. SOUNDBITE: (German) Wolfgang Thierse, President of the German Bundestag:
Today we open a memorial that recalls Nazi Germany's worst, most terrible crime - the attempt to exterminate an entire people. This memorial is dedicated to the murdered Jews of Europe.
8. Eberhard Jackel, Professor in History at Stuttgart University, and Lea Rosh, Chair of Society for Promotion of Memorial of the Murdered Jews of Europe
9. Ceremony
10. SOUNDBITE: (German) Dr. Paul Spiegel, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany:
The memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe honours the victims of the National Socialist (Nazi) tyranny, but doesn't refer directly to their perpetrators.
11. Audience
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Eisenman, Designer of Holocaust Memorial:
We were not trying to be provocative in itself, but rather to attempt something that would simply convey the ordinariness, the mundane quality that all of those who suffered were about; and perhaps it is in this simplicity that it becomes provocative.
13. Eisenman at podium
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sabina van der Linden, Holocaust survivor:
It has been the lot of our people to confront the worst manifestation of evil in human history, and yet our oppressors have perished and we have survived. And from this perspective we face a future confident in the ultimate triumph of human spirit over a brute force, a victory, not only for Jewish people, but a victory of all decent people over evil. Ladies and gentlemen I thank you.
15. Audience
16. SOUNDBITE: (German) Lea Rosh, Chair of the Society for Promotion of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe:
With this memorial we want to remember a unique act. With this memorial we want to honour the murdered. With this memorial we want to give back the names of the murdered. That we succeeded in this we are deeply grateful.
17. Audience
STORYLINE
Germany dedicated its national Holocaust memorial with a ceremony in Berlin on Tuesday.
President of the German Bundestag (Parliament), Wolfgang Thierse, joined Jewish leaders and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder for the opening ceremony at the memorial, near the famous Brandenburg Gate in the city centre.
Thierse said the memorial recalled the worst, most terrible crime of Nazi Germany.
The field where the memorial is located is near the site of Adolf Hitler's bunker.
For 28 years, it lay in the no man's land flanking the Berlin Wall which was built by communist East Germany to keep people from leaving during the Cold War.
Its designer, New York architect Peter Eisenman, said he wanted the site to show the ordinariness of those ho suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
The completed memorial already draws sightseers, who are currently kept out by a metal construction fence which will come down on Thursday, when the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (as it is officially named) opens to the public.
Six million Jews perished in the Holocaust - in the Nazi gas chambers, in medical experiments, worked to death, starved or killed in other ways.
Holocaust survivor Sabina van der Linden, Holocaust said the memorial represented a victory over evil.
The opening ends a long saga of delay for the project, first proposed by writer Lea Rosh in 1988.
After years of debate and hesitation about how Germany should remember Holocaust victims, politicians rallied behind the idea in the late 1990s.
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Berlin, Center - Germany 4K Travel Channel
For the tour through Berlin Center we take the bus from the Memorial Church at the Kurfürstendamm to the government district.
On our way we pass the Victory Column, the Bellevue Palace, the seat of the German Federal President and the Congress Hall, today the House of the Cultures of the World.
The government district in Berlin is dominated by the Reichstag building, the seat of the German Bundestag. The publicly accessible glass dome, designed by the architect Norman Foster, became a symbol of Berlin.
Another visual focus is the German Chancellery. On the opposite site you find the Paul Löbe House, the house for the members of the parliament.
The space between the buildings releases the view on the Swiss Embassy and the new Berlin Central Station.
A footbridge over the Spree connects the Paul Löbe House with the Marie-Elisabeth-Lueders-Haus, another functional building of the Bundestag.
The modern architecture runs east-west over the former course of the wall and is in a glaring contrast to the Reichstag Building.
On the way to the Brandenburg Gate is the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism. Behind is the Holocaust Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe. It was designed by the architect Peter Eisenman and the engineer BuroHappold.
At the Brandenburg Gate is bustling activity which we watch a while. Passing the Hotel Adlon we go further along Berlin's magnificent boulevard Unter den Linden.
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Für unsere Tour durch Berlin Zentrum, nehmen wir zunächst den Bus von der Gedächtniskirche am Kurfürstendamm zum Regierungsviertel.
Der Weg führte uns an der Siegessäule vorbei, ebenso am Schloss Bellevue, dem Sitz des deutschen Bundespräsidenten und der Kongresshalle, dem jetzigen Haus der Kulturen.
Das Regierungsviertel wird dominiert vom Reichstagsgebäude, dem Sitz des Deutschen Bundestages. Die begehbare gläserne Kuppel vom Architekten Norman Foster entwickelte sich zu einem Wahrzeichen Berlins.
Ein weiterer Blickpunkt ist das Bundeskanzleramt, dem gegenüber das Paul-Löbe Haus, das Haus für die Abgeordneten, platziert wurde.
Der Raum dazwischen gibt den Blick frei auf die Schweitzer Botschaft und den neue Berliner Hauptbahnhof.
Das Paul-Löbe Haus ist über einen Steg über die Spree mit dem Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, einem weiteren Funktionsbau des Bundestages verbunden.
Die moderne Architektur verläuft in Ost-West über den ehemaligen Verlauf der Mauer und steht in krassem Gegensatz zum Reichstagsgebäude.
Auf dem Weg zum Brandenburger Tor befindet sich das Denkmal für die im Nationalsozialismus ermordeten Sinti und Roma Europas. Dahinter liegt das das Holocaust Mahnmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas, entworfen von Architekten Peter Eisenman and Ingenieur Büro Happold.
Am Brandenburger Tor herrscht immer geschäftiges Treiben, dem wir eine Weile zusehen. Vorbei am Hotel Adlon gehen wir weiter entlang Berlins Prachtallee Unter den Linden.
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WRAP Update on inauguration of holocaust memorial
SHOTLIST
1. Aerial of holocaust memorial
2. Closer shot memorial
3. Inauguration ceremony of memorial
4. German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and Wolfgang Thierse, President of the German Bundestag
5. Orchestra playing
6. Orchestra finishing
7. SOUNDBITE: (German) Wolfgang Thierse, President of the German Bundestag:
Today we open a memorial that recalls Nazi Germany's worst, most terrible crime - the attempt to exterminate an entire people. This memorial is dedicated to the murdered Jews of Europe.
8. Eberhard Jackel, Professor in History at Stuttgart University, and Lea Rosh, Chair of Society for Promotion of Memorial of the Murdered Jews of Europe
9. Ceremony
10. SOUNDBITE: (German) Dr. Paul Spiegel, President of the Central Council of Jews in Germany:
The memorial for the murdered Jews of Europe honours the victims of the National Socialist (Nazi) tyranny, but doesn't refer directly to their perpetrators.
11. Audience
12. SOUNDBITE: (English) Peter Eisenman, Designer of Holocaust Memorial:
We were not trying to be provocative in itself, but rather to attempt something that would simply convey the ordinariness, the mundane quality that all of those who suffered were about; and perhaps it is in this simplicity that it becomes provocative.
13. Eisenman at podium
14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Sabina van der Linden, Holocaust survivor:
It has been the lot of our people to confront the worst manifestation of evil in human history, and yet our oppressors have perished and we have survived. And from this perspective we face a future confident in the ultimate triumph of human spirit over a brute force, a victory, not only for Jewish people, but a victory of all decent people over evil. Ladies and gentlemen I thank you.
15. Audience
16. SOUNDBITE: (German) Lea Rosh, Chair of the Society for Promotion of the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe:
With this memorial we want to remember a unique act. With this memorial we want to honour the murdered. With this memorial we want to give back the names of the murdered. That we succeeded in this we are deeply grateful.
17. Audience
18. Memorial
19. Various of officials walking through memorial
STORYLINE
Germany dedicated its national Holocaust memorial with a ceremony in Berlin on Tuesday.
The President of the German Bundestag (Parliament), Wolfgang Thierse, joined Jewish leaders and Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder for the opening ceremony at the memorial, near the famous Brandenburg Gate in the city centre.
Thierse said the memorial recalled the worst, most terrible crime of Nazi Germany.
The field where the memorial is located is near the site of Adolf Hitler's bunker.
For 28 years it lay in the no-man's land flanking the Berlin Wall, built by communist East Germany to keep people from leaving during the Cold War.
Its designer, New York architect Peter Eisenman, said he wanted the site to show the ordinariness of those who suffered at the hands of the Nazis.
The memorial is already drawing sightseers, which have so far been kept out by a metal construction fence which comes down on Thursday when the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe (as it is officially named) opens to the public.
Six million Jews perished in the Holocaust - in the Nazi gas chambers, in medical experiments, worked to death, starved or killed in other ways.
Holocaust survivor Sabina van der Linden, Holocaust said the memorial represented a victory over evil.
The opening ends a long saga of delay for the project, first proposed by writer Lea Rosh in 1988.
After years of debate and hesitation about how Germany should remember Holocaust victims, politicians rallied behind the idea in the late 1990s.
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Берлин в Международный день памяти жертв Холокоста
27 января 2017 года в Берлине, как и во всём мире, отметили память жертв Холокоста. В этот день мы побывали на Мемориале убитых евреев Европы (Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas), запечатлели приспущенные флаги и некоторые памятные места, осмотрели экспозицию Еврейского музея (Jüdisches Museum Berlin), а также почтили память убитых национал-социалистами синти и рома (Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Murdered under the National Socialist Regime).
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Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, Berlin
Denkmal für die ermordeten Juden Europas
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
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 American architect Peter Eisenman, was dedicated on May 10 2005 in central Berlin, Germany. The memorial is located 100 meters away from Berlin´s main architectonical symbol, the Brandenburger Gate, on a 19.073 m2 large field. It is composed of 2.711 stelae in high quality gray stone slabs. Each stelae is 0,95 m wide and 2,38 m long. The height varies from 4,7 m down to 0,2 m. There are no inscriptions on the stelae. An underground information center at the eastern side of the field houses an information center and an exhibition about the Holocaust which includes records from the Yad Vashem database about 3.5 millions of the Jews that were killed in the Holocaust.
In the center of Berlin, where the no-man’s land of the Wall had snaked through, the federal government designated a public space to be used for the planned memorial. The site is located right where the Nazi dictatorship’s hub of power had been, in direct proximity to Hitler’s former Chancellery of the Reich. Although the location was now decided, opinion was sharply divided over the form thememorial should take. The monument has been criticized for only commemorating the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, however, other memorials have subsequently opened which commemorate other identifiable groups that were also victims of the Nazis, for example, the Memorial to H0m0$exu@s Persecuted Under Nazism (in 2008) and the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism (in 2012). Many critics argued that the design should include names of victims, as well as the numbers of people killed and the places where the killings occurred. Meanwhile, architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff claimed the memorial is able to convey the scope of the Holocaust's horrors without stooping to sentimentality - showing how abstraction can be the most powerful tool for conveying the complexities of human emotion.
The history of the memorial dates back to 1988 when the publisher Lea Rosh took the initiative to build a Holocaust-memorial in Berlin. A competition was made in 1994 but the winning proposal was not well received by the German Government, which however decided to continue the work by initiating a second contest in 1997. In 1999 the jury decided to give the commission to architect Peter Eisenman and in 2003 the building started.
It is estimated that some 3.5 million visitors entered the memorial in the first year it was open, or about 10,000 every day. About 490,000 people also visited the underground Information Center, 40% of them non-Germans. The foundation operating the memorial considered this a success; its head, Uwe Neumärker, called the memorial a tourist magnet.
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A slideshow of the Roma and Sinti Memorial in Berlin. Photos taken September 2017.
The Unfit: Disability under Nazism and Fascism
February 7, 2013
Speakers: Patricia Heberer and Susan Bachrach (both of Holocaust Memorial Museum), David Forgacs (New York University)
Holocaust Remembrance: “The Unfit”: Disability under Nazism and Fascism
Welcoming remarks:
Barbara Faedda
Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University
Speakers:
Patricia Heberer
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Giving a Face to Faceless Victims: Profiles of Disabled Victims of the Nazi “Euthanasia” Program
Susan Bachrach
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race
David Forgacs
New York University
Photographing Places of Social Exclusion
Europe and the United Nations commemorate the victims of the Shoah each winter on the date of Auschwitz's liberation in 1945, and the Italian Academy marks Holocaust Remembrance Day with an annual academic event exploring issues of discrimination and crimes against humanity. In past years, the Academy has broadened its focus to explore other minority groups that were targeted by the Nazi and Fascist regimes, and that suffered and died along with the millions of Jews: the Roma and Sinti (or Gypsies) in one case, and homosexuals in another. Persons with disabilities were subject to persecution as part of radical public health policy aimed at excluding hereditarily “unfit” Germans from the national community. According to the Holocaust Memorial Museum, “these strategies began with forced sterilization and escalated toward mass murder. The most extreme measure, the Euthanasia Program, was in itself a rehearsal for Nazi Germany’s broader genocidal policies.”
Susan Bachrach is Curator of Special Exhibitions at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. In this capacity, she is involved in all phases of select special exhibitions at the Museum, including the historic research, identification of artifacts, design, and creation of accompanying publications. She is currently working on a new exhibition, Some Were Neighbors: Collaboration and Complicity in the Holocaust, that will open at the museum this April. Her last exhibition, Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, is presently traveling to universities and other venues across the country. Since joining the Museum in 1992, Dr. Bachrach has worked on many exhibitions, including Liberation 1945 and NAZI OLYMPICS Berlin 1936. She has written or co-edited a number of exhibition catalogues, including Deadly Medicine, NAZI OLYMPICS Berlin 1936, and most recently, Nazi Propaganda.
Patricia Heberer has served as an historian with the Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington since 1994. There she serves as a Museum specialist on medical crimes and eugenics policies in Nazi Germany. Dr. Heberer earned her baccalaureate and master’s degrees from Southern Illinois University; she pursued doctoral studies at the Free University of Berlin and the University of Maryland, receiving her Ph.D. from the latter institution. In addition to contributions to several USHMM publications, she has recently authored a source edition, Children during the Holocaust, a volume in the Center’s series, Documenting Life and Destruction, appearing in 2011. A further publication, Atrocities on Trial: The Politics of Prosecuting War Crimes in Historical Perspective, co-edited with Juergen Matthäus, appeared in 2008 with the University of Nebraska Press.
David Forgacs holds the Guido and Mariuccia Zerilli-Marimò Chair of Contemporary Italian Studies at New York University. His publications include Mass Culture and Italian Society from Fascism to the Cold War (with Stephen Gundle, Indiana University Press, 2007) and Italian Culture in the Industrial Era (Manchester University Press, 1990). His latest book, Italy's Margins: Photography, Writing and Social Exclusion since 1861, will be published by Cambridge University Press in 2013.
Holocaustmonument Berlin
Visit Holocaustmonument Berlin with the song Sound of Silence by Henk Poort.
Memorial to the Jewish,Roma and Sinti of Europe murdered under the national socialist regime.
Between 5 and 6 miljon people were murdered in the 7 extermination camps.
Roma genocide memorial
Berlin
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of Nazism (NationalSocialism)
Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
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 American architect Peter Eisenman, was dedicated on May 10 2005 in central Berlin, Germany. The memorial is located 100 meters away from Berlin´s main architectonical symbol, the Brandenburger Gate, on a 19.073 m2 large field. It is composed of 2.711 stelae in high quality gray stone slabs. Each stelae is 0.95 m wide and 2.38 m long. The height varies from 4.7 m down to 0.2 m. There are no inscriptions on the stelae. An underground information center at the eastern side of the field houses an information center and an exhibition about the Holocaust which includes records from the Yad Vashem database about 3.5 millions of the Jews that were killed in the Holocaust.
In the center of Berlin, where the no-man’s land of the Wall had snaked through, the federal government designated a public space to be used for the planned memorial. The site is located right where the Nazi dictatorship’s hub of power had been, in direct proximity to Hitler’s former Chancellery of the Reich. Although the location was now decided, opinion was sharply divided over the form the memorial should take. The monument has been criticized for only commemorating the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, however, other memorials have subsequently opened which commemorate other identifiable groups that were also victims of the Nazis, for example, the Memorial to H0m0$exu@s Persecuted Under Nazism (in 2008) and the Memorial to the Sinti and Roma victims of National Socialism (in 2012). Many critics argued that the design should include names of victims, as well as the numbers of people killed and the places where the killings occurred. Meanwhile, architecture critic Nicolai Ouroussoff claimed the memorial is able to convey the scope of the Holocaust's horrors without stooping to sentimentality - showing how abstraction can be the most powerful tool for conveying the complexities of human emotion.
The history of the memorial dates back to 1988 when the publisher Lea Rosh took the initiative to build a Holocaust-memorial in Berlin. A competition was made in 1994 but the winning proposal was not well received by the German Government, which however decided to continue the work by initiating a second contest in 1997. In 1999 the jury decided to give the commission to architect Peter Eisenman and in 2003 the building started.
It is estimated that some 3.5 million visitors entered the memorial in the first year it was open, or about 10,000 every day. About 490,000 people also visited the underground Information Center, 40% of them non-Germans. The foundation operating the memorial considered this a success; its head, Uwe Neumärker, called the memorial a tourist magnet.
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@ Tiergarten, Memorial to the Sinti and Roma Murdered under the National Socialist Regime
Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime.
Memorial to the Homosexuals Persecuted under the National Socialist Regime. Berlin, Germany